Adorno judged the manipulative type the most dangerous fascist personality.

Evidence

Adorno saw the potentially most dangerous type as being the manipulative' onemore dangerous than superficial resentment’, conventionalism', authoritarianism’, psychopaths' and eccentrics’. This was an attempt to take recent experience into account and to bring out the central ideas of Dialectic of Enlightenment and Eclipse of Reason, which were the peak of the Horkheimer circle’s critique of positivism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1808

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘manipulative type’ directly operationalizes the ‘instrumental reason’ thesis of Dialectic of Enlightenment — total administration and the fully instrumentalized subject.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1808