John W. Dean

“• They travel in tight circles of likeminded people. • Their thinking is more likely based on what authorities have told them…

— John W. Dean

“Social Dominators—Leaders: • typically men • dominating* • opposes equality* • desirous of personal power* • amoral* • intimidating and bullying •…

— John W. Dean

“Conservatives without conscience do not have horns and tails; if they did they would be easier to identify. Many of them can…

— John W. Dean

“But on a more pedestrian level, he found it difficult for most right-wingers to talk about any subject about which they felt…

— John W. Dean

“American-style despotism is possible only if it has a large and influential base, and that potential exists in the religious right’s active…

— John W. Dean

“how have conservatives succeeded in coalescing as a political force? The simple answer is through the power of negative thinking, and specifically,…

— John W. Dean

“Now, on the investigation, you know, the Democratic break-in thing,” Haldeman began, “we’re back to the problem area, because the FBI is…

— John W. Dean

“Probably about 20 to 25 percent of the adult American population is so right-wing authoritarian, so scared, so self-righteous, so ill-informed, and…

— John W. Dean

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the…

— John W. Dean

“Research finds that authoritarian aggression is fueled by fear and encouraged by remarkable self-righteousness, which frees aggressive impulses.”

— John W. Dean

“What actually occurred was that the Supreme Court issued its abominable opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford in 1857, asserting that slaves…

— John W. Dean

“Haldeman, it seemed, lived by Polonius’ advice to his son—“apparel oft proclaims the man.”

— John W. Dean

“the “queen of mean,” Ann Coulter,”

— John W. Dean

“Political scientist Clinton Rossiter, considered one of the first neoconservatives, answered this question head-on, and unlike his peers, honestly, in his early…

— John W. Dean

“Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s Hardball has made similar observations, and describes today’s Republicans as the “Daddy” party and Democrats as the “Mommy.”

— John W. Dean

“The evidence is overwhelming that George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have engaged in deceit and deception over going to war…

— John W. Dean

“If you think [the United States] could never elect an Adolf Hitler to power, note that David Duke would have become governor…

— John W. Dean

“Our societies presently produce millions of highly authoritarian personalities as a matter of course, enough to state the Nuremberg Rallies over and…

— John W. Dean

“An authentically popular American fascism would be pious, antiblack, and, since September 11, 2001, anti-Islamic as well.”98 Are we on the road to fascism?”

— John W. Dean

“Conservatives seek the wisdom of the past, not the worst of it,”

— John W. Dean

“Our founding fathers understood that republics were vulnerable; they knew that “many republics in history, such as the Roman republic, had been…

— John W. Dean

“They are nattering nabobs of negativism.”

— John W. Dean

“Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious…

— John W. Dean

“Right-Wing Authoritarian—Followers: • men and women • submissive to authority* • aggressive on behalf of authority* • conventional* • highly religious •…

— John W. Dean