A single authoritarian personality type links disparate political violence events

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An authoritarian personality could be publicly socialist yet convert readily to Nazism; Harsh child-rearing produces an authoritarian personality supporting discriminatory politics. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 450; Intermittent violent actors must be read against the full political context of their regime — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 220