Politics & Power Quote by David Horowitz

“For thirty years” is doing more than marking time; it’s building a prosecutorial timeline. Horowitz frames Roe v. Wade not as contested constitutional interpretation but as an “invention,” a word chosen to delegitimize from the start. The move is strategic: if a right is invented, it can be un-invented, and anyone defending it becomes an accomplice to fraud rather than a participant in democratic disagreement.

The phrase “privacy right” is also a tell. By reducing Roe to “privacy,” Horowitz collapses a complex web of bodily autonomy, equality, and medical reality into something that can sound frivolous or bourgeois. Then comes the organizing villain: “the Left,” capital-L, a monolith that turns political opponents into a coordinated force. “Waging a systematic assault” militarizes jurisprudence, converting court decisions, advocacy, and cultural change into enemy action. It’s a rhetorical upgrade from “wrong” to “treasonous.”

The subtext is less about Roe specifically than about who gets to claim the Constitution. Horowitz positions his side as protectors of “the constitutional foundation of the nation,” a phrase that turns interpretive conflict into an existential threat. That’s the point: move the debate from policy outcomes to national survival, where compromise starts to look like surrender.

Context matters. This line comes out of the post-Roe conservative intellectual ecosystem that treated the Warren and Burger Courts as engines of illegitimate social transformation. It’s the language of backlash sharpened into ideology: not just “we lost a case,” but “they broke the country.”