Conservatives Without Conscience by John W. Dean PDF Free

Dean’s last NY Times bestseller, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, offered the former White House insider’s telling perspective on George W. Bush’s presidency. Once again, he employs his 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 Ave to K Street and beyond. In Conservatives without Conscience, he not only highlights specific right-wing-driven GOP policies but also probes the conservative mindset, 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. He identifies specific examples of how court-packing seeks to form a judiciary that is biased 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, he paints a vivid picture of what’s happening at the top levels of the Republican Party, a party corrupted by leaders who cloak their actions in moral superiority while packaging their programs in blatant propaganda. He finds disturbing signs that current right-wing authoritarian thinking, when conflated with the domineering personalities of the conservative leadership, could take the USA toward its own version of fascism.