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The uproar over Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens is obscuring another problem that is going to hurt the cause of conservatism: the mean-girl tone that too often emerges in prominent voices on the right.

It rang loudly in Tucker Carlson’s recent discussion with Megyn Kelly when he derided Liz Cheney as “repulsive” just days after her father’s death, giving pundits on the left the opportunity to bash both Carlson and Kelly. It was evidence anew that you don’t have to be a girl to sound like a mean girl.

The mean-girl vibe also erupted on Kelly’s show in September, when she berated Jemele Hill, not only for her r

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