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It's gotten much worse. Reagan/Bush I were pretty much the last civil presidencies. Once Clinton came into office, the right-wing started to lose their collective minds. Fun note, I was one of them, I thought Clinton was the embodiment of the anti-christ. I wanted soooo badly to see him impeached. I listed to all the rhetoric. Now, later, that I have matured and lost my religion, I am aghast at how bad things are.

Anyhow, from Clinton, where the right was off the rocker, to Bush II where the left was off the rocker(though, again in retrospect, not without reason). When we went from a Good White Evangelical Christian(TM) to a "Black Muslim", the right-wing completely lost their mind. It's funny, early in the Obama presidency, Janet Napolitano came out with a report, essentially saying that with a black president, we would see a rise in right-wing hate groups and violence. She was absolutely excoriated, it was vicious and un-called for. She was forced to retract the report and apologize. Here is some coverage from WND(World Net Daily), admittedly one of the worst of the right-wing bigot sites, but none-the-less, its there:

http://www.wnd.com/2009/04/95619/

Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/chorus-protest-grows-report-warning-right-wing-radicalization/

Heres a much later report talking about EXACTLY that happening:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/number-of-us-hate-groups-on-the-rise-report-says.html

The polarization of the nation, has a lot to do with Fox News, Right-Wing web sites proliferating and pointing to one another as evidence of truth. They have created their own reality.

It's quite amazing to watch. Just look at how they are bending over backwards, without evidence either way, to make George Zimmerman innocent of anything. A man pursues a 17-yr old kid, 100 lbs smaller than him, somehow ends up on the ground, getting his ass kicked, he shoots and kills the kid and it is justified. If you were to look at only right-wing web sites you would think Trayvon was 240 lbs and just short of killing George Zimmerman when he had no choice, but for his very life, to react by killing the kid. Its quite disgusting really.

Having been a republican, registered and voting, for more than 20 year. I am completely disgusted with what the republican party has become. I am now registered as a Independent because I cannot fathom calling myself a republican at this point, its like a 4 letter word. The republicans scare me. In fact, Im reading a book you might want to take a look at called "Conservatives without Conscience". It is really eye-opening about the thought process of our conservative brethren.

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I also strongly recommend former Professor of Psychology Bob Altemyer's books, The Authoritarians (2006) and The Authoritarian Specter (1996). Altemeyer is the person who developed the RWA scale and test.

I also recommend former White House Counsel John Dean's book Conservatives Without Conscience (2006) and Chris Mooney's The Republican Brain: The Science of Why they Deny Science--and Reality (2012), both of which make extensive use of research on Right-Wing Authoritarian personality orientation.

Omigod, the pixels! The pixels are coming for me!

Seriously, they couldn't find one good high-res picture of the book cover?
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Conservatives Without Conscience

or

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in The 21st Century

Both of these books' authors are Republican, I might add, and served under GOP Presidents. Their careers were deep inside the GOP, at the very center. They have interesting things to say about today's GOP.

Conservatives without Conscience also is quite similar.