No measurable authoritarianism asymmetry favors left-wing lawmakers

Evidence

Switching to relative differences then, Democrats in this study scored a little higher on the LWA Scale than Republicans, just as New Democrats opened up a small gap on Conservatives in Saskatchewan. But in neither case was the difference significant. So we can find no evidence for the alleged authoritarian on the left in American legislatures either. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3650

Categorization

  • XREF: Corroborates the vault’s claims about authoritarianism being right-leaning; connects to Adorno’s original F-scale assumptions about a possible authoritarian left.