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12. Yep, there's plenty of "right-wing authoritarians"...

Tue Sep 28, 2021, 11:31 AM

Sep 2021

... in the USA, as they existed in Nazi-Germany years ago and seized power.

RWA attitudes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism#Attitudes

And the best indicator that someone was a Trump supporter during the 2016 GOP primaries, when his repeated victories were shocking many pundits, was RWA personality.

The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter
And it’s not gender, age, income, race or religion.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533/

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Yep, there's plenty of "right-wing authoritarians"... Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #12