Authoritarian followers are ordinary people, not just neo-Nazis

Evidence

Most people seem surprised when I say, ‘‘No, I study normal folks, not Nazis.” Few people, unless they are familiar with the history of fascism, understand that people as ordinary as you and I, and our friends and neighbors, might bring down democracy if the going got tough enough. But we are the people who, driven by fear and cuddling in our self-righteousness, could create the wave that would lift the monsters among us to power. And once the monsters acquire the powers of the state, their evil explodes. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3844

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the vault’s Christian-nationalism claims linking ordinary dispositional followers to authoritarian leaders.
• ADDENDUM: Fits the ‘On Sacrifice’ or general authoritarianism thread: normal-citizen complicity in regime evil is the empirical counterpart to ritual and structural claims.