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Haidt Drops a Bombshell: Right-Wing Parents Are Raising Happier, Healthier Kids

Scott McClallen
Scott McClallen  |  May 02, 2026 6:00 PM

Psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt says that Right-Wingers make better parents. 

Author and economist Tyler Cowen asked Haidt, who's written multiple books about kids' mental health and anxiety: “Who makes better parents? Left-Wingers or Right-Wingers? 

Haidt responded: “ There’s a lot of data on this. There’s long been a slight gap where conservatives are a little happier than liberals and it’s not clear. Is that parenting? Who knows. 

But what I  found in doing research for the book is that the gap between Left and Right became a chasm after 2012… The bottom line is that when kids are rooted in communities, they don’t get washed out to sea by the phone-based childhood, living by the virtual world. So over and over again, whether we look at Left-Right, whether we look at religion, what we find is it's the secular kids and the liberal kids who got washed out to sea, got really depressed after 202. And much less effect on the conservative and religious kids, because I think they’re more rooted.” 

We see this over and over again. 

Cole Allen, the 31-year-old man from California who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April, was sucked into Left-Wing lies, according to the manifesto he sent shortly before he appeared to have shot a U.S. Secret Service Agent. 

He believes the talking points spouted by the mainstream media to the point that he traveled across the country in an attempt to assassinate Trump and his cabinet members. He attended a "No Kings" rally and was radicalized to the point where, instead of living his life, he tried to kill others because he has Trump Derangement Syndrome. 

He earned an engineering degree from Caltech University, a hot zone for liberals, and then threw his life away. 

Luigi Mangione, the man who allegedly shot and killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City in December 2024, was also sucked into the intellectual deadzone of lies on Reddit and the mainstream media.