studies and behavioral studies of great masses of people, in fact, one of the studies by an nyu professor john jost and his colleagues, they looked at 40 years of studies of the personalities of conservatives. it was some 22,000 participants. and they found, clearly, that fear is a part of the makeup of the personality of the conservative. this is part of the psychological makeup. this isn't necessarily a pathological judgment. it is just an analysis of the type of person we're dealing with. so i think it's a real factor and it's one that conservatives don't necessarily want to hear but it is what, the way they certainly test repeatedly and consistently. >> is it, i think one of the points of your book was that this is now conservative versus liberal but it wasn't essentially republicans and conservatives coopted a personality trait, that this is really a question of authoritarian personality versus