Openly racist political newcomers must temper their appeal to attract high authoritarians

Evidence

If you believe that political parties know which issues draw which supporters, then you might conclude that the Reform Party knows it has cornered the “bigot vote.” But that card must be played with finesse. I did a series of experiments in 1983-84 on the factors that would affect High RWAs’ liking for a new political figure on the scene. In one of the experiments, the newcomer was overtly racist, saying things like “Perhaps the biggest mistake those muddle-headed liberals in Ottawa have made is to allow all the coloured people into the country … And the Jews, with all their dirty money and secret control of things, are not going to be too welcome either. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4423

Categorization

• QUESTION: The excerpt trails off before describing what the experiment actually found about High RWAs’ reactions to the overtly racist newcomer.
• XREF: connects to: Authoritarian-era rhetoric norms constrain whether elites can later mobilize voters through ethnic hostility. — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 97