U.S. Conservatives Uniquely Inclined Toward Right-Wing Authoritarianism Compared to Western Peers

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https://morningconsult.com/2021/06/28/global-right-wing-authoritarian-test/

Headline findings:

A scale measuring propensity toward right-wing authoritarian tendencies found right-leaning Americans scored higher than their counterparts in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

26% of the U.S. population qualified as highly right-wing authoritarian, Morning Consult research found, twice the share of the No. 2 countries, Canada and Australia.

The beliefs that voter fraud decided the 2020 election, that Capitol rioters were doing more to protect than undermine the government and that masks and vaccines are not pivotal to stopping COVID-19 were similarly prevalent among right-leaning Americans and those that scored high for right-wing authoritarianism.

more:

https://morningconsult.com/2021/06/28/global-right-wing-authoritarian-test/

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Been this way since Reagan and the fundie right increased their activism.

Thus, we have christofascism as a threat to our Republic.

[PortTack]

2. Then they should move to where they have that kind of authoritarian government

[machoneman]

3. Yeah, let's time warp them all back to Germany in 1939! That's the ticket...chops to John Lovitz!

[appalachiablue]

4. "A Night At The Garden," NYC, Feb. 1939

- In Feb. 1939, on George Washington's birthday weekend, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history. The main speaker was Fritz Kuhn, the head of the German American Bund.

A Night At the Garden uses striking archival fragments recorded that night to transport modern audiences into this gathering and shine a light on the disturbing fallibility of seemingly decent people. PBS TV.