"Well, the title drew me into it. Being a liberal, I'm interested in anything that anybody has to say bad about conservatives.
The premise of The Conservatives Without Conscience is that something very bad has happened to the conservative movement; and the Republican Party has been taken been over by authoritarian personalities, both followers who are not inclined to think very much and leaders who are not inclined to take other people's thinking into account. There's also a schism between authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders where the leaders tend to believe that they are above the law; and that's where the several figures that adorn the cover of this book come in, such as Tom DeLay and Bill Frist and so on, he identifies him as people who are willing to use any means necessary to __________ the principles of the conservative agenda and the Republican Party that has recently been constituted.
I would say in a sense that it did give me an understanding of conservatives I didn't have before and of different points of view within the conservative movement.
I think that right-wing authoritarians should read this book, but I don't know they'd really get anything out of it. Anybody to the left of Jerry Falwell would probably take some warnings from the book. I'll give it four stars. I don't know if I could give a conservative writer more than that, but I think he should try some -- "