Many voters would elect extremely authoritarian candidates given a crisis.

Evidence

If you think our countries could never elect an Adolf Hitler to power, note that David Duke would have become the governor of Louisiana if it had just been up to the white voters in the state. Many people vote for extraordinarily High RWA candidates today. Many more would want one during a crisis. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3852

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Milgram findings and to the prevalence of high-RWA legislators cited immediately after. — connects to: Crisis paralysis reflects ordinary voters’ own disavowed desires, not merely elite ideology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1422