"I predict most authoritarian followers would sail right through this book and compartmentalize, misinterpret, rationalize, and dogmatically deny it had anything to do with them personally. If you tried to force this self-awareness on them, they would probably run away, run away, as fast as they could. So good luck if you passed on this URL to your fascist Uncle George."
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Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarians (2006), p. 239; last sentence included in the subsequent e-book publication.
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