“In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays in the marriage as a way to serve both her personal ambition as well as their shared ambition to achieve ever-greater positions of power and influence.”

American diplomat and former political commentator

Monica Crowley is an American diplomat and former political commentator. Since 2025, she has served as the 35th Chief of Protocol of the United States. A Republican, she also held a post in the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the first Trump administration. She served as assistant secretary for public affairs from 2019 to 2021. Before that, she was a Fox News contributor from 1996 to 2017, and also worked as an opinion editor for The Washington Times. She has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.