Right-wing authoritarianism strongly predicts lawmakers’ anti-democratic voting dispositions

Evidence

So who “Just says, ‘No’” to freedom and equality? The right-wing authoritarians do. The correlation across all 197 legislators was a very powerful .84. The Democrat versus Republican correlation equaled .66. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3637

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the vault’s Christian-nationalism and authoritarianism claims (Cooper, Whitehead & Perry); .84 RWA correlation with legislative anti-democracy is a strong quantified anchor.
• SEED: Angle: elected lawmakers’ authoritarian personality predicts their actual willingness to dismantle democratic and egalitarian protections more than party does.