In a new interview, former President Bill Clinton says cancel culture was started by Republicans before it was adopted by liberals.
Clinton appeared on British morning show Lorraine on Wednesday and discussed life after the White House and his latest novel The President's Daughter with best-selling author James Patterson.
In the wide-ranging interview Clinton discussed cancel culture, which he says was actually started by Republicans who tried to cancel anyone who was not of the same mindset before it was embraced by liberals.
'The first canceling I ever went through throughout my life was the canceling that people on the right tried to do to people who weren't,' Clinton said.
Bill Clinton appeared on ITV's Lorraine today with author James Patterson discussed cancel culture, which he says was started by Republicans who tried to cancel anyone who was not of the same mindset
Clinton did not specify when Republicans tried to cancel him but the former president was impeached by a Republican-controlled House in 1998 following his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky
The former president added that with time cancel culture shifted to liberals canceling people on the right.
Clinton said he believes that criticism, which he is more open to listening to, works better than canceling those you oppose.
'Then it became tempting when the demographics changed just to go the other way, but I think if you listen to our book, criticism works better than canceling because I always listen to my critics.'
Clinton did not specify when Republicans tried to cancel him but the former president was impeached by a Republican-controlled House in 1998 following his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The highly publicized sex scandal between then 49-year-old Clinton and the 22-year-old
