Rothman and Lichter accepted the idea that intolerance is linked to certain types of personalities across the board. That carries the authors into very deep waters indeed, and waters from which they do not entirely extricate themselves. At no time, for instance, does it seem to occur to these learned individuals that persons can change their opinions easier than they can change their personalities. According to the Adorno Theory, and to Drs. Rothman and Lichter, opinions are treated as graven on stone, irrevocable and immutable.
Christians know better.
The subject is, however, interesting. And its treatment by Drs. Rothman and Lichter is, at times, startling. These elaborations took some strange forms. According to Rothman and Lichter, such arguments were not unprecedented in deracinated Jewish circles.