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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said Thursday on Sean Hannity’s “Hang Out” podcast that Democrats would seek to deliberately weaken the U.S. economy over the next two years in an effort to hurt President Donald Trump politically.
Shapiro, a founder of conservative media company The Daily Wire, told Hannity that congressional Democrats planned to push populist measures designed to look as though they were addressing the cost of living while actually slowing economic growth.
“The Democrats right now have a strong incentive to basically crater the American economy over the course of the next two years and blame President Trump for it,” Shapiro said.
According to Shapiro, this strategy involves targeting the artificial intelligence sector under the guise of protecting workers and addressing the cost of living, which he argued would appeal to the “legacy media” and uninformed voters.
As an example, Shapiro pointed to opposition against AI infrastructure, referencing a recent campaign in which an activist gathered thousands of signatures to stop a planned $5 billion AI data center in Maryland.
“I think they will offer, quote, unquote, affordability bills to help with the legacy media that aren’t actually about affordability,” Shapiro said.
