kraftiekortie wrote:
Radicals on both the "left" and the "right" tend to be made of the same cloth when it comes to "authoritarianism."
I don't trust Nazi-types. And I don't trust hard-line Communists, either.
It's not jst the extremes of the spectrum who have the potential to be authoritarian, although that would be where they would be expected to congregate - The condition of "Authoritarianism" is not linked to any position on the political spectrum, and could, theoretically, exist in a person with centrist views.
As the study noted:
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While an individual reporting that they had performed an act of violence was rare, nearly a third of respondents agreed with the statement that they wouldn't mind if a politician that diametrically opposed their own political views was assassinated. "The higher a respondent ranked on the scale for either left-wing or right-wing authoritarianism, the more likely they were to agree with this statement," Costello says.
So, it seems the one of the best metrics for this outlook would be to consider they type of person who would wish for a person holding different political views to their own to be killed, and I doubt it is only people from the extreme ends who would have wished (or still wish) someone would kill Mr. Obama or Mr. Trump...