I really think Peterson has always been a self involved charlatan. He got some notoriety because he was one of the first academic voices to even justly mildly break the progressive mold.

The more I hear him speak the more I realize he takes incredibly droll and boiler plate arguments that are made better by other people and just obfuscates them so that they sound more profound. Normies eat this up because to them it seems mystical but most of his stuff could be succinctly boiled down but instead he puts together confusing word salads of contradictory statements that midwits trip over themselves to slobber ober.

Just read Christopher Lasch if you want actually academic and insightful political psychology. He writes neatly and concisely as he wanted to be understood and not sell speaking engagements and suck israeli cock