The Content of His Character

In the course of a lunch with a prominent liberal journalist recently, I was asked why the Right hated Clinton so much. I wasn’t surprised to be asked. Liberals believe that the enmity Clinton engendered had little to do with the man himself but was rather a symptom of something dark in us. In fact, last July, the Bulletin of the American Psychological Association published a study purporting to analyze “50 years of literature about the psychology of conservatism.” Four researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Maryland concluded that conservatives are characterized by “fear and aggression, dogmatism,” . . . blah, blah, blah. Funny how academia and James Carville are hard to distinguish.

Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First.

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Mona Charen

Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist, the policy editor of The Bulwark, and the host of the podcast Beg to Differ.

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In the course of a lunch with a prominent liberal journalist recently, I was asked why the Right hated Clinton so much. I wasn’t surprised to be asked. Liberals believe that the enmity Clinton engendered had little to do with the man himself but was rather a symptom of something dark in us. In fact, last July, the Bulletin of the American Psychological Association published a study purporting to analyze “50 years of literature about the psychology of conservatism.” Four researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Maryland concluded that conservatives are characterized by “fear and aggression, dogmatism,” . . . blah, blah, blah. Funny how academia and James Carville are hard to distinguish.

Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First.