A single authoritarian personality drives disparate news events across eras.

Evidence

I propose that all these events, and others including the World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing, are in one respect the same story. The connecting link is a certain kind of personality: the right-wing authoritarian. By the time you finish this book, you may recognize this personality playing its role in much of your daily news, too. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 75 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A single authoritarian personality type links disparate political violence events — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 75; An underlying authoritarian personality can attach to either political extreme depending on power. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2834; One underlying authoritarianism trait explains many disparate attitudes (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• A single authoritarian personality type links disparate political violence events #expands (0.95) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 75
• Individual societal measures of authoritarianism lack historical generality because context shifts. #complicates (0.82)
• Authoritarianism shifts with situational threat and status cues #complicates (0.75)