The Enemy Within

Inside ‘The Enemy Within’

David Horowitz’s new book is a bravura tour d’horizon of woke America.
Review by Bruce Bawer
Frontpagemag.com, Mon Apr 26, 2021

In several incisive, relatively short volumes that have appeared during the last few years – The Shadow Party, Big Agenda, Dark Agenda, and BLITZ – David Horowitz has adroitly recounted the contemporary radicalization of the Democratic Party and the establishment by Donald Trump of a resistance movement rooted in founding American principles. In his newly published The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America – his first title to appear since the Democrats wrested the Oval Office from Trump and placed what remains of Joseph Robinette Biden behind the Resolute Desk – Horowitz steps back from the immediate political concerns of these earlier works to take in the big and exceedingly dangerous picture of woke America in the year 2021. The result is a trenchant and comprehensive tour d’horizon of our present sociocultural moment – a moment defined by such phenomena as intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and cancel culture, by the notion that American patriotism is tantamount to “white nationalism” and “white supremacy,” and by the conviction that individuals should be judged not on their merits but on their sex, color, and religion. If you’re baffled by the values and vocabulary that have been wholly and unthinkingly adopted, seemingly overnight, in the corridors of American power, Horowitz, who for over half a century has been not just a perspicacious observer of the currents and crosscurrents of American society and culture but also a key player in its political life, proves a deeply informed – and no-nonsense – guide.

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David Horowitz’s new book reveals a totalitarian movement that’s destroying America.
Review by Jason D. Hill
Frontpagemag.com, Tue Apr 20, 2021

The philosopher E.M. Cioran in his book, The Temptation to Exist, writes: “A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect… by the same token it admits defeat, worm-eaten, done for. The smell of carrion fascinates and inflames those greedy and garrulous gravediggers we call the Apostles.”

I raise the haunting specter of an infectious virus decimating a civilization against the backdrop of two viruses at present infecting American civilization. One is biological in nature, Covid-19; the other political.

I believe that writer and social philosopher David Horowitz has identified the nature of that second virus. I think that he reasons that it is deadlier than COVID-19, and that its deleterious consequences are far more destructive and long-lasting than any biological infection.

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Praise for David Horowitz and The Enemy Within:

“Though he doesn’t know it, David Horowitz was central to my educa­tion. Despite growing up in the heartland of the New Left, I knew little about them until I discovered Horowitz—easily our greatest chronicler of their thought and deeds. The Enemy Within, like all Horowitz’s work, combines front-row eye-witness experience with careful research. While the gravity and horror of what he writes can sound too incredible to be real, it’s all real. He knows these people like no one else. Believe him and prepare.”

—MICHAEL ANTON, author of The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return

“In this powerful new book Horowitz shows how the Democrat Party has embraced a world view that is anti-constitutional, anti-American, racist, and totalitarian down to the pronouns we are permitted to use. This new Democrat Party is at war with the First Amendment, the independence of the judiciary, the separation of powers, and the two-party system. The Enemy Within is a book for all patriots who understand that our country is in a fight for its life.”

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