Judging by their hug with Andrew Tate, some conservative influencers in 2025 are ready to replace the familiar “Christ is King” mantra with a new one: “Pimping ain't easy.” It seems there is.
Benny Johnson is a popular conservative commentator with over 3 million followers on X and nearly 3 million subscribers on YouTube. He caused a huge controversy in right-wing circles after announcing that he was hiring a man known as “.Top G'' on his show, discussing the sentencing phase of President Trump's hush money lawsuit. Johnson promoted his guests with an image of two men wearing black aviator shades and a liberal woman crying in the lens.
If American conservatism becomes defined by its enemies rather than its values, it will die a well-deserved death.
The video spoke for itself. Andrew Tate describes the operation of a webcam featuring more than 75 women as “pimping” boasted About recruiting “betas” from all over the world and having them send money to the women who “work” for him. His appearance on Johnson's show was not meant to be a tough interview about Tate's own legal issues, updates on the Romanian human trafficking case, or past comments about female domination.
Mr. Tate's contribution to the show was essentially a series of comparisons between himself and President Trump, and a complaint about conservatives “policing” right-wing miscreants. At one point, Alina Haba, one of Trump's legal advisers, joined the show and said, gushing out Beyond Tate. She compared Mr. Tate's legal tribulations to Mr. Trump's and said she sympathized with and admired him and was rooting for him.
I try to avoid therapeutic language, but Tate's defenders conducted a masterclass in gaslighting. Instead of addressing the concerns conservatives had about Tate's content and views, they took issue with: censorship and freedom of speech. Johnson even tried to protect himself with the Bible. Post“He who was without sin cast the first stone…”
I have no problem with media personalities speaking to guests with controversial views. I was a baby in the '80s and remember when talk show hosts would invite provocateurs to explain their ideas and defend their positions in front of hostile crowds. I am. But there's a big difference between Phil Donahue interviewing a former Klansman to get his point of view and fawning over him like some noble Cyclops groupie.
The backlash against Tate and his defenders is not about “cancel culture” or policing speech. It is caused by the fact that Tate promotes a lifestyle and worldview that is diametrically opposed to what conservatives claim to value.
Conservative influencers post images promoting drag queens performing in front of children or pediatric surgeons performing “gender-affirming” hysterectomies, and fans criticize their decisions. No one will scream about free speech or censorship. Similarly, no one would admit to such a misjudgment of scripture taken out of context.
Conservatives have the right to decide which ideas need to be discussed publicly and which people need to be widely promoted. Failure to use discernment when considering allies and co-ops will always backfire.
I saw this firsthand in 2020, when Black Lives Matter turned a truism into a movement and endowed its leaders with political power, cultural influence, and multi-million dollar real estate portfolios. I saw it. Of all the victims of BLM's obvious deception, the churches and pastors who loaded their wagons with anti-family Marxist lesbians were by far the most pathetic. My problem with them wasn't their innocence. It was true that they thought so. necessary People with such anti-biblical views tried to convey a message about the value of human life that could be drawn directly from the Bible.
Similarly, American conservatism will die a natural death if it becomes defined by its enemies rather than its values.
Taking a bold public stand against porn one moment and praising OnlyFans “entrepreneurs” the next just because they have politically “based” views I can't. You can't claim to want to rebuild your family one day and then flatter people whose idea only creates more broken homes. cannot call out transgender ideology Promoted by “impossible women” in public health roles, they support men on the right who call themselves women because they seem more persuasive. fake Or support the next president.
The litmus test for the right cannot be how much a person is disliked by the left. You don't need to be an expert on Andrew Tate's legal issues to understand why conservatives don't want his ideas and views to be justified. If all it takes to become a darling of conservative media is to have the right enemies, then a savvy “person attracted to minors” must stand up to the globalists bent on destroying Western civilization. They could simply hide their pedophilia behind an invented persona characterized by
No serious political movement should be so easily glossed over, and no self-respecting person would want to be.
