If you have not picked up on the Jordan Peterson phenomenon, then you have missed the news about a huge cultural movement. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist who has gained a huge following by promoting what might be called the sterner virtues—self-examination, self-discipline, striving, and, well, sucking it up: Quit complaining about your miserable life, he says, and take ownership of it. Don’t point the finger at others: Do what you should be doing to become the best version of yourself you possibly can. And don’t presume to lecture the rest of the world about how it needs to shape up until you have proved you can do something minimally competent—like, say, cleaning your bedroom.
Peterson also has gained fame and notoriety by opposing political correctness. In an era when the press is full of ruminations about “toxic masculinity,” Peterson makes no excuses for virility. He considers being nice a lower-order virtue, if it is a virtue at all, and contends that a weak man is far more dangerous than a strong man.
The question here, though, is why those conservatives who find Peterson’s message to the individual so appealing don’t apply it to their movement as a whole.
Because, let’s face it: The conservative movement needs to straighten up. A. Barton Hinkle explains.
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