Left-wing authoritarianism is nearly nonexistent in contemporary samples

Evidence

I have yet to find a single “socialist/Communist-type” who scores highly on absolute terms on the LWA Scale. Shils may have been right about his era, but the “authoritarian on the left” has been as scarce as hens’ teeth in my samples. On the other hand, a my sterious group of “high-highs” consistently appeared in my studies who landed in the top quartile on both the RWA and LWA scales. These seemingly contradictory people proved to be highly prejudiced, and quite hostile in general. I called these puzzling people “Wild-Card Authoritarians,” and the Militia scale provides the key to understanding many of them. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1003

Categorization

• QUESTION: Shils’s symmetric-authoritarianism hypothesis fails empirically in modern samples — worth chasing the current consensus on whether left-wing authoritarianism exists at all.
• XREF: Connects to the broader authoritarian personality literature (Adorno’s F-scale) and to contemporary debates about left-wing authoritarianism revived by social media-era scholarship. — connects to: Most left-wing party supporters lacked a matching radical personality type. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 707; Scholars on the left increasingly favor China-style authoritarianism over democracy — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1640; Authoritarianism can manifest on the political left as well as right — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 446 (+1 more)
• SEED: An essay angle: the ‘Wild-Card Authoritarian’ — people who score high on both RWA and LWA — as a psychological portrait of conspiratorial, anti-Semitic ‘both-sides’ voters who transcend ordinary left/right.