List of former liberals

List of former liberals

• Stephen Baldwin, the only actor in the family known to be conservative.
• Saul Bellow, a former liberal, he is now typically identified with neoconservativism
• Steve Beren
• Kirk Cameron, actor and former child star. Used to be an atheist, now runs the "Way of the Master" ministry.
• Sandra Cano
• Whittaker Chambers
• Eldridge Cleaver
• Nick Cohen
• 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
• Sidney Hook, philosopher
• David Horowitz
• Charles Foster Johnson (founder of Little Green Footballs)
• Willmoore Kendall, political scientist
• Joseph Kennedy, top New Deal official
• 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
• Raymond Moley, was a "Brains trust" top advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933
• Bernard Nathanson
• George Orwell
• Melanie Phillips
• Norman Podhoretz, neoconservative writer
• Dennis Prager
• Ronald Reagan, 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
• Michael Steele, now GOP national chairman
• Jon Voight, actor
• James Woods
• David Zucker, director and co-writer of An American Carol, it is a conservative film mocking popular leftist figures like Michael Moore. A trailer for the film is available here or here