Left and right authoritarians share one underlying personality structure

Evidence

This conceptualization brings a great simplicity to our thinking. If the question is, what basic personality structure does an authoritarian on the political left share with an authoritarian on the political right?—the answer is (tadum!) being an authoritarian. Whatever their other differences, both submit to their authorities, aggress in their names, and adhere to their conventions. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2850

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An authoritarian personality could be publicly socialist yet convert readily to Nazism; Sartre’s portrait of the anti-Semite independently matched the empirical authoritarian personality findings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1787; Scholars on the left increasingly favor China-style authoritarianism over democracy — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1640 (+1 more)