Editing David Horowitz (section)

=== Political positions ===
Horowitz was a former [[Marxism|Marxist]], but was later described as being conservative.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Horowitz |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/david-horowitz/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=FRONTLINE |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Godfather |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2014/godfather |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=May 24, 2014 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2016-02-15 |title=Why Leftists Go Right |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/why-leftists-go-right |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |access-date=2022-09-30}}</ref> During his time in the New Left, Horowitz supported the [[civil rights movement]]. In the 1970s, he came to believe that the [[Black Panther Party|Black Panthers]] were involved in the death of his friend [[Murder of Betty Van Patter|Betty Van Patter]], souring the relationship between Horowitz and the Black Panthers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Horowitz |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz |access-date=2022-01-18 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en |quote=Despite Horowitz being a founding intellectual member of the New Left in the 1960s, and an advocate for civil rights and equality, he has since the late 1980s become a driving force of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black movements.}}</ref>

Horowitz wrote against United States intervention in the [[Kosovo War]], arguing that it was unnecessary and harmful to United States interests,<ref>22/Feb/1999 [https://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1999/fr022299.htm Clinton Kosovo Intervention Appears Imminent], senate.gov; accessed August 10, 2016.</ref> but supported the [[interventionism (politics)|interventionist]] foreign policy associated with the [[Bush Doctrine]], including the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horowitz |first=David |date=2002-11-26 |title=Joe Conason got it wrong |url=https://www.salon.com/2002/11/25/response_4/ |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref> He also wrote critically of [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] [[Anti-war movement|anti-war]] views.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 12, 2007 |title=CNN.com – Transcripts |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/12/gb.01.html |access-date=April 23, 2013 |publisher=Transcripts.cnn.com}}</ref>

Horowitz opposed [[Barack Obama]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-05-07 |title=How Obama Betrayed America |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/05/how-obama-betrayed-america-david-horowitz/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=National Review |language=en-US}}</ref> [[illegal immigration]], [[gun control]], and [[Islam]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=1999-07-06|title=What's gun control got to do with it?|url=https://www.salon.com/1999/07/06/guns_4/|access-date=2021-10-07|website=Salon|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Guerrero|first=Jean|title=The Man Who Made Stephen Miller|url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/01/stephen-miller-david-horowitz-mentor-389933|access-date=2021-10-07|website=POLITICO|date=August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He endorsed Presidents [[Ronald Reagan]], [[George W. Bush]], and [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-20 |title='Trump is 100% right': David Horowitz, the thinker who sponsored Stephen Miller |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/20/donald-trump-david-horowitz-stephen-miller-family-separation-border-policy |access-date=2021-10-07 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-11-10 |title=The Life and Work of David Horowitz |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/david-horowitz-journey-left-right/ |access-date=2021-10-07 |website=National Review |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Horowitz |first=David |date=1999-05-06 |title="I'm a uniter, not a divider" |url=https://www.salon.com/1999/05/06/bush_2/ |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref>

Horowitz described himself as "a defender of gays and 'alternative lifestyles', a moderate on abortion, and a civil rights activist".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horowitz |first=David |date=2002-07-16 |title=One fishy argument |url=https://www.salon.com/2002/07/15/fish_3/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref>