text: Before everyone gets lost in Andrew Sullivan's personal animus for Hillary Clinton, remember that Sullivan was an ideological conservative Catholic Tory growing up in the UK.  I believe that he was one of those champion debaters at Oxford or Cambridge - he likes to argue for the love of the argument.  Coming out as a gay man and becoming an American are only more recent overlays over those formative beginnings.
  
  Add to all that, Sullivan enjoys being a contrarian much like his fellow Brit Christopher Hitchens, but on the other side of the ideological divide.  Besides, Bill and Hillary Clinton are polarizing political figures because they insist on their infuriating "Third Way" politics.
  
  I voted for Bill Clinton twice but was never a great admirer - we did have a great economy during his presidency.  Hillary on her worse day was always infinitely preferable to the vulgar traitor and Putin's puppet Trump.