Full story from the Guardian
here. Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be
explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and
aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's
four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing
talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same
affliction.
All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned
inequality".
Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report,
Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in
public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and
the National Institutes of Health.
The original paper referenced in the Guardian article can be downloaded in pdf format
here.