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surfered

(14,301 posts) Fri Aug 29, 2025, 11:52 AM Aug 2025

Conservatives Without Conscience

In his 2006 book, “Conservatives Without Conscious,” former White House Counsel John Dean warned us of the the Republican Party’s evolution towards right-wing authoritarianism.

It not only analyzes the leaders quest for power and control, but also the base’s innate desire for authoritarian leaders.

It should surprise none of us that the spawn of slave owners would have authoritarian tendencies.

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Conservatives Without Conscience (Original Post) surfered Aug 2025 OP

I sense a Bonfire of the Vanities moment is coming. /nt bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #1

Dean also wrote "Worse Than Watergate" Martin Eden Aug 2025 #2

bucolic_frolic

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1. I sense a Bonfire of the Vanities moment is coming. /nt

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Fri Aug 29, 2025, 12:00 PM

Aug 2025

Martin Eden

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2. Dean also wrote "Worse Than Watergate"

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Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:05 PM

Aug 2025

About the deliberate campaign of disinformation by the GW Bush administration to justify their invasion of oil-rich Iraq.

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