A professor of mine got mugged the evening before class, and he told us about it the next day lamenting “a neocon is a liberal that has been mugged.” It’s rare

A professor of mine got mugged the evening before class, and he told us about it the next day lamenting “a neocon is a liberal that has been mugged.” It’s rare to see public officials targeted by crime, but it does make me curious: Does crime have the ability change a person’s political identity?