No left-wing authoritarians were found among 2,500 respondents over two decades
Evidence
In my own case, counting the item-development studies, I have now collected responses to left-wing authoritarian statements from 1,845 Manitoba students, 642 of their parents, and 67 politicians in Saskatchewan—over 2,500 persons. I have not yet found a single individual who even “slightly agreed” (+1, or 6.0) on average with the notion of an authoritarian left-wing movement. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2986
Categorization
- XREF: Directly corroborates and extends the vault’s Christian-nationalism/authoritarianism claims by showing the authoritarian dynamic is right-wing specific, not symmetric across ideology.