Jonathan Emmesedi<p>Insightful article from a few years ago on the recently deceased David Horowitz. The murder of Betty Van Patter was probably the occasion rather than the cause of his beginning his migration from the new left to the far right. One important consequence of this migration was his launching of the political career of the malignant Stephen Miller.</p><p>As an individual, Horowitz sounds awful and given the politics of his latter years, a feeling of relief or even joy at the news of his death is understandable.</p><p>Yet we need to be ready to ask what in the culture of the new left and of the US left in general nourished the loathsome politics of Horowitz. Just uttering the words "horseshoe theory" will not suffice.</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/162227/david-horowitz-profile-trump-propagandist-radical-leftist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/162227</span><span class="invisible">/david-horowitz-profile-trump-propagandist-radical-leftist</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DavidHorowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidHorowitz</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NewLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewLeft</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a></p>