Personality-driven authoritarians, not ideological leftists, drive leftist movements toward violence and dictatorship.

Evidence

In closing this section, let me try to mine three nuggets of insight from the discovery of the Wild-Card Authoritarians. First, if we recall that Wild Cards almost always find the RWA Scale more to their liking than the LWA Scale, … I think we can understand better the perplexing careers of Benito Mussolini, Lyndon LaRouche, and others who started out on the political left, but ended up way over on the political right. Some High RWAs can turn up in leftist movements. Second, you can see why left-wing organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Students for a Democratic Society eventually split into nonviolent and violent factions. The Left-Wingers and the Wild Cards could not work together forever. Third, these results may help explain why leftist revolutions so often become dictatorships if they succeed. Wild Cards tend to control things at the end of the war. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2996

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: FICTION SEED: the notion that ‘Wild Cards tend to control things at the end of the war’ is a provocative engine for narratives about revolutionary movements’ corruption.
• DEFINE: DEFINE — defines the ‘Wild-Card Authoritarian’ (High-High) construct by its behavioral consequences.