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Conservatives Without Conscience
John Dean
John Dean takes a sobering look at how radical elements are destroying the Republican Party along with the very foundations of American democracy
Viking
July 2006
288 pages ISBN: 0670037745 Hardcover
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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 dominating personalities
of the conservative leadership could take the United States
toward its own version of fascism.
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