After watching that interview, calling Ben Shapiro an intellectual is a stretch.You cannot deplatform the likes of Shapiro, because he isn't posting hate speech and doxxing people on the regular. He's simply a well spoken sounding board for conservatives - the intellectual excuse to support a buffoon like Trump, even over a moderate like Biden, which he lays out quite clearly in this interview.
Honestly it just exposes to the world how low brow and unintelligent the right is when this is the guy they roll out to be the champion of their ideas.