An underlying authoritarian personality can attach to either political extreme depending on power.

Evidence

I am proposing, in short, an underlying authoritarian personality that can be either psychologically left-wing or right-wing, depending on who holds power, and can be found at either extreme of the political spectrum. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2834

Categorization

• DEFINE: The key theoretical proposal of the chapter: authoritarianism is content-neutral, defined by submission to power rather than by ideology.
• XREF: connects to: An authoritarian personality could be publicly socialist yet convert readily to Nazism