Authoritarians blame the homeless and justify violence against abortion providers and environmentalists

Evidence

Other Targets. Peterson, Doty, and Winter (1993) found RWA scores correlated . and . with sentiments that the homeless were “lazy,” not “unlucky.” Their University of Michigan High RWAs also considered antiabortion violence relatively justified (.21) and felt that environmentalists who disrupted businesses should be punished (. and .56). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 392