Authoritarian dispositions can attach to whichever authority happens to be in power

Evidence

Some High RWAs scored relatively high on the LWA Scale. To be sure, their hearts and minds were captured more by the RWA Scale, where they punched up much higher numbers. But they seem to believe in submission, aggression, and conventionalism per se. So even though the LWA Scale talks about taking the Establishment out to the woodshed, the authoritarian sentiments in the items made it hard for these students to get a low score. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2906

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Milgram/authoritarian-follower dynamics and connects to Altemeyer’s core thesis that submission is content-blind. — connects to: Fighting authoritarianism requires constituting authority collectively, not abandoning it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2174
• QUESTION: Does the High-High pattern predict who switches loyalties during regime change or revolution? This feels testable with longitudinal data.