I'm sure you've read Robert Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians," indeed fascinating. The right's capture of religious folk - most who had already self-selected themselves into church because of their authoritarian personality type - was genius, with terrifying results for the rest of us.

Combine these tendencies with zero-sum thinking, malicious envy, and last-place aversion. Toxic stew.

Then there are the terrible "Double Highs", who while also being very right-wing authoritarian, are also power-hungry social dominators who excel at exploitation, prejudice, and manipulation. Sound familiar?

Worth a read:
theauthoritarians.org/wp-content/u...

"... hypocrisy, self-blindness, a profound ethnocentrism, and--to top it all off--a ferocious dogmatism that makes it unlikely anyone could ever change their minds with evidence or logic."

"research reveals that authoritarian followers drive through life under the influence of impaired thinking a lot more than most people do, exhibiting sloppy reasoning, highly compartmentalized beliefs, double standards...

I'm sure you've read Robert Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians," indeed fascinating. The right's capture of religious folk - most who had already self-selected themselves into church because of their authoritarian personality type - was genius, with terrifying results for the rest of us.