Lawmakers’ anti-freedom and anti-equality stances form one coherent dimension

Evidence

We can combine these nine answers to produce an index of how much each lawmaker would undermine freedom and equality, if he or she could vote on such acts. Rather amazingly, considering the wide range of topics involved, responses to these proposals intercorrelated . on the average—when scored as being in favor of restricting freedom and against increasing equality. Thus we have an ad hoc, balanced “Legislative Undermining of Democracy Scale” with an alpha of .84. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3635