Right-wing authoritarians among legislators oppose freedom and equality at a .84 correlation

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: Connects to the broader RWA-vs-LWA political mapping across Altemeyer’s studies and to the ‘Bill of Rights as bulwark against lawmakers’ framing.