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Conservatives without a Conscience [1]

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Date: 2026-03-10  

If you are mystified by the way that MAGAs ‘think’, then I can recommend “Conservatives without a Conscience” by John Dean. The ripened amongst us may remember John Dean as White House Counsel to Tricky Dick during the Watergate era. He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice before the Watergate trial judge after agreeing to help the prosecution. He was regarded as being scary smart.

He apparently saw the error of his ways and, after getting out of custody, wrote several books about his experience, including “Blind Ambition”. He knows the history of the Republican party and he knows what motivates them. (Spoiler alert, it’s not money) He wrote “Conservatives w/o Conscience” in 2006, predicting what we see today. If you’re in this fight, it’s a LETHAL WEAPON.

I realize that maybe the last thing you want to do is get inside a MAGA’s head. However, if you were to find yourself in a situation where you had to deal with a nest of scorpions, wouldn’t it be useful to know that their teeth are not the dangerous part?

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