Back in 2008, David Horowitz warned against succumbing to Obama Derangement Syndrome over Barack Obama’s election as president, asserting that birthers are “embarrassing and destructive” and “essentially arguing that 64 million voters should be disenfranchised because of a contested technicality as to whether Obama was born on U.S. soil,” which he said is “not conservatism; it is sore loserism and quite radical in its intent.” But now, Horowitz is succumbing to a different strain of ODS.
In an Aug. 29 interview with Newsmax, Horowitz declared that Obama “basically despises America,” adding:
Obama is a radical of his (Horowitz’s) generation and actually is a product of the worst part of the 1960s, he said. Obama was a close political ally of 1960s radical and later education professor Bill Ayers, who Horowitz knows very well given his own background as a former leader in the New Left.
“I don’t think Obama cares about this country and I think he is intent on bankrupting it and diminishing our military to the point where we are a second-rate power,” he said. “He is already the most dangerous president we’ve had in modern times.”
Horowitz charged that Obama has surrendered the Middle East to the Muslim Brotherhood.
“There will be a war there soon and he’s responsible and that’s because he basically despises America and wants us to lose in these global conflicts,” he said.
Horowitz also believes that American exceptionalism is in danger under Obama.
“We are a unique country,” he said. “The left under Obama is destroying that uniqueness. The Obamacare is not even a disguised plan to turn this into a socialist country and make everyone a dependent of the state. In history we are really unique where we have been a nation of individualists, distrustful of government, jealous of our liberty, and the Obamaites are systemically destroying our liberties.”
What was that Horowitz once said about sore loserism? Never mind.