I guess that's more of an "authoritarian" versus "not authoritarian" division, but that's how things tend to shake out in the US these days (this book goes into some depth about how you measure authoritarian tendencies, and how closely correlated those measures are with Republican vs. Democrat--or right wing vs. left wing if you prefer--in the US 1). These politics things are never simple, so no one person is going to be fully left-wing or right-wing about every single topic and I don't mean to imply that. And I also don't want to get into a long thread trying to defend or elaborate on what I'm saying here!
Footnote (a quote from the introduction to the book *The Authoritarians*):
> Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian
leaders cook up between themselves. It happens when the followers submit too
much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do
whatever they want--which often is something undemocratic, tyrannical and
brutal. In my day, authoritarian fascist and authoritarian communist dictatorships
posed the biggest threats to democracies, and eventually lost to them in wars
both hot and cold. But authoritarianism itself has not disappeared, and I=m going
to present the case in this book that the greatest threat to American democracy
today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the
nation.=
I guess that's more of an "authoritarian" versus "not authoritarian" division, but that's how things tend to shake out in the US these days (this book goes into some depth about how you measure authoritarian tendencies, and how closely correlated those measures are with Republican vs. Democrat--or right wing vs. left wing if you prefer--in the US 1). These politics things are never simple, so no one person is going to be fully left-wing or right-wing about every single topic and I don't mean to imply that. And I also don't want to get into a long thread trying to defend or elaborate on what I'm saying here!
Footnote:
> Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian
leaders cook up between themselves. It happens when the followers submit too
much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do
whatever they want--which often is something undemocratic, tyrannical and
brutal. In my day, authoritarian fascist and authoritarian communist dictatorships
posed the biggest threats to democracies, and eventually lost to them in wars
both hot and cold. But authoritarianism itself has not disappeared, and I=m going
to present the case in this book that the greatest threat to American democracy
today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the
nation.=
I guess that's more of an "authoritarian" versus "not authoritarian" division, but that's how things tend to shake out in the US these days ([this book](https://theauthoritarians.org goes into some depth about how you measure authoritarian tendencies, and how closely correlated those measures are with Republican vs. Democrat--or right wing vs. left wing if you prefer--in the US 1). These politics things are never simple, so no one person is going to be fully left-wing or right-wing about every single topic and I don't mean to imply that. And I also don't want to get into a long thread trying to defend or elaborate on what I'm saying here!
Footnote:
> Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian
leaders cook up between themselves. It happens when the followers submit too
much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do
whatever they want--which often is something undemocratic, tyrannical and
brutal. In my day, authoritarian fascist and authoritarian communist dictatorships
posed the biggest threats to democracies, and eventually lost to them in wars
both hot and cold. But authoritarianism itself has not disappeared, and I=m going
to present the case in this book that the greatest threat to American democracy
today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the
nation.=
I guess that's more of an "authoritarian" versus "not authoritarian" division, but that's how things tend to shake out in the US these days ([this book](https://theauthoritarians.org goes into some depth about how you measure authoritarian tendencies, and how closely correlated those measures are with Republican vs. Democrat--or right wing vs. left wing if you prefer--in the US [1]). These politics things are never simple, so no one person is going to be fully left-wing or right-wing about every single topic and I don't mean to imply that. And I also don't want to get into a long thread trying to defend or elaborate on what I'm saying here!
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> Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian
leaders cook up between themselves. It happens when the followers submit too
much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do
whatever they want--which often is something undemocratic, tyrannical and
brutal. In my day, authoritarian fascist and authoritarian communist dictatorships
posed the biggest threats to democracies, and eventually lost to them in wars
both hot and cold. But authoritarianism itself has not disappeared, and I=m going
to present the case in this book that the greatest threat to American democracy
today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the
nation.=
I guess that's more of an "authoritarian" versus "not authoritarian" division, but that's how things tend to shake out in the US these days (this book goes into some depth about how you measure authoritarian tendencies, and how closely correlated those measures are with Republican vs. Democrat--or right wing vs. left wing if you prefer--in the US 1). These politics things are never simple, so no one person is going to be fully left-wing or right-wing about every single topic and I don't mean to imply that. And I also don't want to get into a long thread trying to defend or elaborate on what I'm saying here!
Footnote (a quote from the introduction to the book *The Authoritarians*):
> Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian
leaders cook up between themselves. It happens when the followers submit too
much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do
whatever they want--which often is something undemocratic, tyrannical and
brutal. In my day, authoritarian fascist and authoritarian communist dictatorships
posed the biggest threats to democracies, and eventually lost to them in wars
both hot and cold. But authoritarianism itself has not disappeared, and I=m going
to present the case in this book that the greatest threat to American democracy
today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the
nation.=
Are these sorts of people just folks that blindly love authoritarianism? 🤔
Are these sorts of people just folks that blindly love authoritarianism? 🤔
Are these sorts of people just folks that blindly love authoritarianism? 🤔
Are these sorts of people just folks that blindly love authoritarianism? 🤔