Why Bette Midler's Nastiness Matters

She managed to expose “an ugly brand of liberal elitism.”

I’ve been a puzzle to a lot of my liberal friends. They can’t figure me out. Over the years more than a few of them have said: “You can’t really be a conservative.” And when I ask why they would say that, they tick off a bunch of liberal assumptions about conservatives. I don’t seem to be a racist, they tell me, or a homophobe or a sexist or any of the …