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* [[Al Smith]], Democratic nominee for president in 1928 | * [[Al Smith]], Democratic nominee for president in 1928 | ||
* [[David Stockman]], Reagan's budget director | * [[David Stockman]], Reagan's budget director | ||
| + | * [[Ivanka Trump]], a former liberal Democrat; became more strongly conservative and officially switched to Republican following her father [[Donald Trump]]'s election to US President in 2016. | ||
* [[Jon Voight]], actor | * [[Jon Voight]], actor | ||
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Revision as of 03:55, July 7, 2022
List of former liberals
- Stephen Baldwin, the only actor in the family known to be conservative.[1]
- Saul Bellow, a former liberal, he is now typically identified with neoconservativism
- Steve Beren
- Ray Bradbury
- Tammy Bruce, former head of the L.A. chapter of N.O.W.,currently a conservative radio host and political commentator.
- Kirk Cameron, actor and former child star. Used to be an atheist, now runs the "Way of the Master" ministry.
- Sandra Cano
- Nick Cohen
- Peter Collier, cofounder of Center for the Study of Popular Culture & co-organizer of the Second Thoughts conferences for former liberals who have become conservatives.
- Anthony Flew, former atheist, and anti-theist, he now supports the teaching of intelligent design in schools.
- John T. Flynn, socialist who turned against the New Deal
- Milton Friedman, an active supporter of the New Deal who turned libertarian in the late 1940s
- William Randolph Hearst, powerful publisher 1900-1940 era
- Sidney Hook, philosopher
- David Horowitz, author & cofounder of Center for the Study of Popular Culture
- Willmoore Kendall, political scientist
- Alveda King
- Irving Kristol, founder of neoconservativism
- Joseph Lieberman, became independent after losing the Democratic renomination in 2006; strong supporter in 2008 of John McCain.
- Seymour Martin Lipset, leading sociologist and political scientist
- Norma McCorvey
- Michael Medved, film critic
- Dennis Miller
- Lisa Miller - former lesbian, now born again Christian, who has been ordered by the state to hand over custody of her biological daughter Isabella to her former partner
- Zell Miller
- Raymond Moley, was a "Brains trust" top adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933
- Bernard Nathanson
- George Orwell[2]
- Melanie Phillips
- Norman Podhoretz, neoconservative writer
- Dennis Prager
- Ronald Reagan, a leading liberal of the 1940s; turned right about 1960
- Evan Sayet
- Michael Savage
- Laura Schlessinger
- Stephen Schwartz
- Alfred Sherman
- Ron Silver
- Al Smith, Democratic nominee for president in 1928
- David Stockman, Reagan's budget director
- Ivanka Trump, a former liberal Democrat; became more strongly conservative and officially switched to Republican following her father Donald Trump's election to US President in 2016.
- Jon Voight, actor
- Burton K. Wheeler
- James Woods
- David Zucker, director and co-writer of An American Carol, it is a conservative film mocking popular leftist figures like Michael Moore.
References
- ↑ Stephen Baldwin Slams Hollywood Newsmax, March 6, 2009
- ↑ See Mystery:Did George Orwell Become a Conservative?