Midge Decter, a builder of neoconservative movement, dies at 94
The Jewish writer, known for her blunt words, abandoned liberal politics, was at the forefront of challenging the women’s movement and championed the Reagan Republican agenda.
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The Jewish writer, known for her blunt words, abandoned liberal politics, was at the forefront of challenging the women’s movement and championed the Reagan Republican agenda.
NEW YORK (AP) — Midge Decter, a leading neoconservative writer and commentator who in blunt and tenacious style helped lead the right’s attack in the culture wars as she opposed the rise of feminism, affirmative action and the gay rights movement, has died at age 94.
Neo-conservative writer and commentator Midge Decter has died
A onetime Democrat, Decter later rejected 'heedless and mindless leftist politics and intellectual nihilism'; she was known as the 'requisite bad guy on discussion panels'