ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents one of the facets of his essay which he disposed to regret its excessive emphasis on what might be called the clinical side of the problem. Whether or not the psychological imputations it makes prove to be correct or not, the author thinks a good deal more might have been said on purely behavioral and historical grounds to establish the destructive and "radical" character of pseudo-conservatism. The political character of this movement can be helpfully delineated by comparing it with true conservatism. The United States has not provided a receptive home for formal conservative thought or classically conservative modes of behavior. Lacking a formidable aristocratic tradition, this country has produced at best patricians rather than aristocrats, and the literature of American political experience shows how unhappy the patricians have been in their American environment.
