Sunday, August 13, 2006

Alexander Zaitchik reviews John Dean's Conservatives with conscience for the SFGate.com.
The Dean-Altemeyer thesis posits that "authoritarian personalities" -- dominating, conventional, dishonest -- are drawn to conservative politics as defined by today's GOP. Dean then detaches from Altemeyer to warn that as the Republican Party becomes increasingly intolerant and swollen with activist social conservatives, the nation drifts toward a "conservative authoritarianism."