From the Publisher: : Viking Penguin John Dean takes a sobering look at how radical elements are destroying the Republican Party along with the very foundations of American democracy John Dean's last New York Times bestseller, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, offered the former White House insider's unique and telling perspective on George W. Bush's presidency. Once again, Dean employs his distinctive knowledge and understanding of Washington politics and process to examine the conservative movement's current inner circle of radical Republican leaders-from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street and beyond. In Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean not only highlights specific right-wing-driven GOP policies but also probes the conservative mind-set, identifying recurring qualities such as the unbridled viciousness toward those daring to disagree with them, as well as the big business favoritism that costs taxpayers billions. Dean identifies specific examples of how court packing is seeking to form a judiciary that is activist by its very nature, how religious piety is producing politics run amok, and how concealed indifference to the founding principles of liberty and equality is pushing America further and further from its constitutional foundations. By the end, Dean paints a vivid picture of what's happening at the top levels of the Republican Party, a noble political party corrupted by its current leaders who cloak their actions in moral superiority while packaging their programs as blatant propaganda. Dean, certainly no alarmist, finds disturbing signs that current right-wing authoritarian thinking, when conflated with the dominatingpersonalities of the conservative leadership could take the United States toward its own version of fascism.

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Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (August 28, 2007)
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Sam Wxnil

To understand the direction that W took us, and Trump et al. would like to take us, please read this book.

September 21, 2015

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I gotta tell ya -- this is one scary book, written by a smart lawyer who has clearly done his homework (despite what the negative reviews may claim) and has had first-hand experience with politically-powerful authoritarian personality types. The chapter on "Right Wing Authoritarians" (RWA; followers) and "Social Dominance Orientation" (SDO; leaders) explains a great deal of the observed behavior. That's behavior I've seen in others right in my personal life (we all have THAT uncle or brother-in-law, right?) -- and that we've all seen in the daily tragicomedy that is our national political news coverage.

Note that these labels do not necessarily refer to political leanings, but certain personality types, although the studies he cites point to an empirical relationship between these personality types and hard Right political leanings, at least in North America. "Left wing authoritarians," if they exist, are exceedingly rare. That's hard for some on the Right to except, but a profound lack of insight and deep denial of the facts (even when presented with them) are common characteristics of RWA followers. Dean summarizes the RWA follower personality type using the following headings:

1. Submissive to authority, thus intolerant of criticism of that authority
2. Aggressive support of authority, and pre-disposed to cause harm to others when that harm is sanctioned by authority
3. Highly conventional, and intolerant of those that are not

Please see the book for details. He also goes into the "Double Highs," that is, those that score high on both the RWA and SDO scales. These folks, comprising about ten percent of the broader category that can contains both RWA and SDO types, can probably also be called sociopaths, in that they see human beings as objects to be manipulated toward certain self-serving ends, and any means can be justified for achieving these ends. Double Highs do not possess a functioning conscience -- they will do or say anything to accomplish a goal, regardless of the consequences to others, thus the title of the book.

Yes, this sounds quite familiar.

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The Party of No Hope (Who Needs Hope When You Can Offer Fear?)

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At some point in the recent past the words conservative and Republican merged into one thing: authoritarianism. Masquerading as a champion of small government, as a proud yet humble Christian, as a deeply committed family man or woman, and as a staunch believer in speaking loudly AND carrying a very big and dangerous stick, the contemporary conservative Republican is nothing more or less than an authoritarian for whom there there is only "my way" or the highway. Under the guise of fabricated purity, the authoritarian can justify any ugliness (lying, crime and torture) to get what he or she wants. The authoritarian leader and, perhaps more importantly, the authoritarian follower who gives this leader his political power, feel no shame and have no conscience.

The roots of this authoritarianism are old. It's public debut as an essential characteristic of Republican politics happens during the Nixon presidency, matures during the Bush/Cheney years (when Dean wrote this volume), and comes roaring now out of the cave where Donald Trump was spawned. We should be alarmed. Very alarmed.

Dean's writing combines history (from the point of view of a political insider) and the science of psychology and may be more relevant today than it was a decade ago when it first came out.

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Rachel S. Jerdin

This book was written more than 10 years ago and is even more pertinent!

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This book is insightful of the authoritarian Republican. Though I know this is not the category of all Republicans, it fit for Nixon, Bush and Cheney and now Trump! This did not sound like dated information. The moderate Republicans were virtually all voted out of office with the advent of the Tea Party. At this point, it is the Democratic Party that has taken the place of Republican moderates. It is frightening to see this particular group which wants to make itself The Party of America. They have lied and cheated to make this happen. Though I don't want a Democratic Party behaving this way, there is something very wrong when a group can do illegal, amoral and unconscionable acts and still be allowed to represent us. Do we need to educate the electorate more in how to be civic minded to turn this around? My thought is that we are destroying the America that I understood and may never be a leader in the world again.

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Anya

Great audio book - easy to listen to and reminded me of that part of our history.

A well-written book. John Dean is clear, yet thorough, in his description of the various facets of the conservative groups in our country.

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Sharon Epp

Would be interested to have his take on the present right wing government

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Well worth reading

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To understand today’s political landscape, this book is required reading...well done Mr. Dean!

Throughly researched and presented in an unemotional straight forward manner.
If you wonder where or how Trump got to the WH, it’s all here in black and white!

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Alice Friedemann

The best book on authoritarians (Republicans) and why they appear to have no morals. Explains Trump best too.

John W. Dean was a former attorney on the White House Counsel for President Nixon from 1970 to 1973, but left politics after that. But when G.Read more

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Important reading. Will help you to understand a lot of what’s happening in the Trump administration.

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