The brightest stars are sometimes the ones that shine for the shortest amount of time. Thankfully, that seems to be the case for The Blaze correspondent Tomi Lahren.
But it’s fitting that, for the scorching hot-take flamethrower, a reasonable bit of policy analysis — was this her first bit of actual policy analysis? — seems to have been her undoing. The host, known for her “final thoughts,” was suspended after saying that small-government conservatives shouldn’t be regulating women’s bodies.
Why are we listening to Tomi Lahren anyway? That’s what I want to know. All she was doing, up to this point, was reinforcing extreme right-wing beliefs. For a woman who spends her time making herself seem like a hard-charging conservative willing to carry her armor into battle, she doesn’t frequently venture outside of her safe spaces: The Blaze. Twitter. The occasional Fox News hit.
As Matthew Sheffield points out, “Many on the right are now openly mocking and ridiculing conservative media for anointing grossly unqualified people as their thought leaders, largely on the basis of their being something other than older white Christian men, the demographic mostly likely to vote Republican.”
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