Why MAGA Wants a Dictator
In this week’s video, I talked about Bob Altemeyer’s research on right-wing authoritarianism and how people who score high on his scale grew up in households that trained them to see the world as dangerous. The video covers the basics. This piece goes deeper into the research, because the science behind the authoritarian brain is one of the most well-documented findings in all of political psychology. And it explains nearly everything about what we are watching right now.
The researcher
In 1981, psychologist Bob Altemeyer at the University of Manitoba published Right-Wing Authoritarianism, a…
The skinny
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