Besides being 99 percent caucasian, these fellow citizens are … Well, here is what John Dean said about them in Conservatives Without Conscience
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 so dogmatic that nothing you can say or do will change their minds. They would march America into a dictatorship and probably feel that things had improved as a result. … And they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and do virtually anything they are told. They are not going to let up and they are not going away.
Conservatives are about “me” – not “we.”
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