Chadwick Moore, a gay journalist who contributes to the New York Post and OUT Magazine, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday that the "paranoia" and "mean-spiritedness" of liberals drove him to become a conservative.
Moore penned an article for the Post on Saturday, in which he came out as a conservative and explained why he switched parties. Moore received backlash last September after he wrote a profile piece of Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos in OUT Magazine.
"The part that jumped out at me immediately was the fact that after doing this profile, which you described is pretty straightforward, not for Milo or against but kind of telling who he is, that one of your best friends disowned you as a friend," Carlson said.
Moore said that this is a common story, similar to how Clinton supporters often disassociated themselves with Trump supporters.
"When I even said that I voted for Hillary Clinton, so many people were like, 'Oh you did? I just assumed you were a Trump supporter.' Why would you assume that?" Moore said. "The profile was extremely balanced and I treated him no differently than I would have treated anyone else."
Carlson asked Moore to describe how he saw the liberal community through a "new lens" after receiving widespread backlash for his Yiannopoulos profile.
"Paranoia and mean-spiritedness and an aversion to understanding, an aversion to communicating with people who don't agree with you, and to understanding why exactly Trump became so popular and eventually won," Moore said. "Now that the election is over, evaluating how the Democratic Party and how the far-left alienated so many people and they messed up so badly."
Moore said he believes that those on the far left tend to lean towards paranoia and are losing the ability to think critically. He said the paranoia is exacerbated by people only associating with those who share the same beliefs.
"People are so locked into their social media bubbles and their friendship bubbles and it's just this reinforcing disease of hearing your own opinion spouted back at you constantly and just uncontrollable paranoia," he said. "It's really sad and it's really damaging to journalism for one. Journalists are terrified of these people."
Moore said that he voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, but wrote in his Post piece that he didn't fit in with the liberal status quo anymore.
If you dare to question liberal stances or make an effort toward understanding why conservatives think the way they do, you are a traitor.
It can seem like liberals are actually against free speech if it fails to conform with the way they think. And I don’t want to be a part of that club anymore.
It used to be that if you were a gay, educated atheist living in New York, you had no choice but to be liberal. But as I met more Trump supporters with whom I was able to have engaging, civil discussions about issues that impact us all, I realized that I like these people — even if I have some issues with Trump himself. For example, I don’t like his travel ban or the cabinet choices he’s made.