List of former liberals

List of former liberals.

Deceased

Saul Bellow, a former liberal, now typically identified with neoconservativism
Ray Bradbury, author
Sandra Cano, pseudonymous plaintiff in Doe v. Bolton
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 who later supported 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 in the 1900â1940 era
Sidney Hook, philosopher
David Horowitz, author & cofounder of Center for the Study of Popular Culture
Willmoore Kendall, political scientist
Joseph Lieberman, became independent after losing the Democratic renomination to his U.S. Senate seat in 2006; strong supporter in 2008 of John McCain.
Seymour Martin Lipset, leading sociologist and political scientist
Norma McCorvey, plaintiff in Roe v. Wade
Zell Miller
Raymond Moley, was a "Brains trust" top adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933
Bernard Nathanson
George Orwell^[1]
Ronald Reagan, a leading liberal of the 1940s; turned right about 1960
Alfred Sherman
Ron Silver
Al Smith, Democratic nominee for president in 1928
Burton K. Wheeler

Stephen Baldwin, the only actor in the family known to be conservative.^[2]
Steve Beren, Tea Party activist
Tammy Bruce, former head of the L.A. chapter of N.O.W., currently a State Department spokesman in the second Trump Administration
Kirk Cameron, actor and former child star. Used to be an atheist, now runs the "Way of the Master" ministry.
Nick Cohen, British journalist and political commentator
Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Irving Kristol, founder of neoconservativism
Michael Medved, film critic
Dennis Miller, comedian
Lisa Miller, former lesbian, now a born-again Christian, who has been ordered by the state to hand over custody of her biological daughter Isabella to her former partner
Melanie Phillips
Norman Podhoretz, neoconservative writer
Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU
Evan Sayet
Michael Savage, commentator
Laura Schlessinger, commentator
Stephen Schwartz
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
James Woods, actor
David Zucker, director and co-writer of An American Carol, a conservative film mocking popular leftist figures like Michael Moore.