The personality type they identified can be defined by nine traits which were believed to cluster together as the result of childhood experiences. These traits include conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, anti-introspection, superstition and stereotypy, power and “toughness,” destructiveness and cynicism, projectivity, and exaggerated concerns over sex.

In my Repub friends I’ve seen conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, anti-introspection, cynicism, and projection. Not all 9, but this is only 3 guys I’ve observed.

I don’t think it’s a neat package. That’s a lot of problems for any 1 person to carry. Maybe Dubya has ‘em all, but not many other people.

Thanks for pointing out Dawn Johnsen as somebody who will stand up for the rule of law. I hope Democrats will stand up for her.

I read and wrote a lot about Dawn Johnsen at the time she was nominated. And if there is one person I would love to work under right now, it would be her. IANAL, but in essence I view her job as an Ethics Watchdog, the ethical imperative being the oath to the constitution. I really can’t give any higher recommendation than that – that I’d willingly work alongside her to that End. (Indeed, I think that is the task most of us are trying to do here and elsewhere. To restore the Rule of Law – in every particular.)

The federalist society’s position is nothing more than “my politics good, your politics bad”. Why it has the pull it has is beyond me. It hasn’t much to do with the law. They merely imagine themselves as parchment clad knights doing their king’s bidding, even if in doing so, they promote the whisperer that would play the king, while the king plays.

Prof. Johnsen’s problem, in their view, is that she would enforce the law rather than leave it to the king to decide what “voluntary restraints” please him. (My guess, the mink covered hand-cuffs. Just a guess.) With a division of Johnsen’s working for her, she could be the backbone for a DoJ resurgence that might then produce credible investigations of wrongdoing. Can’t have that when the likely wrongdoers are those who were in power the last eight years and who lied us into war, domestic spying and torture.