Militia beliefs correlate most strongly with left-wing authoritarianism

Evidence

I call persons who reject the normal established authorities in society right-wing authoritarians when they believe the “real” established authority (e.g., their reading of God’s will, or the Constitution) has been usurped by left-wing Jews, feminists, homosexuals, and so on (Altemeyer 1996, p. 9). And indeed, RWA scores correlated solidly with Militia scale responses in this study. But some social dominators also held militia sentiments, and left-wing authoritarianism scores roared out the mightiest relationship of all. What in the name of holy conspiracy theories is going on here? — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1000

Categorization

• QUESTION: The finding that left-wing authoritarianism correlated MOST strongly with militia sentiments is striking and unexplained here; worth chasing the follow-up data.
• DEFINE: Definition of right-wing authoritarian defined by rejecting usurped established authority rather than by policy positions.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1000
• XREF: connects to: Scholars on the left increasingly favor China-style authoritarianism over democracy — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1640