No genuine left-wing authoritarian was found despite a valid scale for measuring one

Evidence

I then offered a new conceptualization of left-wing authoritarianism as submission, aggression, and conventionalism in a revolutionary cause. A scale with good internal consistency was eventually developed to measure this. It produced a very surprising positive correlation with right-wing authoritarianism that, when we took it apart, seemingly uncovered a little gold mine of insights. But although we looked in several populations, we never sighted an “authoritarian on the left.” We did find some “Wild-Card Authoritarians” that may have led to rumors of the “monster” in the first place. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3044

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• QUESTION: What were the “Wild-Card Authoritarians,” and what correlations did the left-wing authoritarianism scale show with right-wing authoritarianism that looked so revealing?
• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s original Authoritarian Personality theory, which posited symmetrical left/right authoritarianism.

Related

• Genuine left-wing authoritarians may not exist as a measurable type. (similarity 0.95)
• Left-wing authoritarianism is nearly nonexistent in contemporary samples (similarity 0.90)
• Even on the left-wing authoritarian scale, right-wing authoritarians dominate the high-scorers. (similarity 0.88)
• Decades of attempts to find a left-wing analogue to authoritarianism have come up empty (similarity 0.88)
• Right-wing authoritarians who also score high on left scales stay prejudiced (similarity 0.86)
• People high in left-wing authoritarianism tended also to score high on right-wing authoritarianism (similarity 0.86)
• Authoritarianism can manifest on the political left as well as right (similarity 0.86)
• Right-wing and left-wing authoritarianism scores correlate positively, not negatively (similarity 0.86)
• Non-authoritarians and wild cards, not left or right authoritarians, drive RWA-LWA correlations (similarity 0.85)
• Apparent left-wing authoritarians were actually high-RWA wild cards who drifted into radical movements (similarity 0.85)
• Personality-driven authoritarians, not ideological leftists, drive leftist movements toward violence and dictatorship. (similarity 0.85)
• Developing a left-wing authoritarianism scale requires blocking right-wing revolutionaries from scoring high (similarity 0.85)
• No coherent left-wing authoritarian ideology emerged from measured student responses (similarity 0.84)
• No left-wing authoritarians were found among 2,500 respondents over two decades (similarity 0.84)
• Authoritarians are selectively not anti-introspective (similarity 0.84)