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like the enemy it is to what they've become. They're not Nazis because he's not Hitler and they're not 1930s Germans who joined his archconservative party. But they are the same sort of people responding dangerously to a scary-bad conservative leader.
“I found that education, income, gender, age, ideology and religiosity had no significant bearing on a Republican voter’s preferred candidate,” he wrote. Only two variables stood out as statistically significant: authoritarianism, with ‘fear of terrorism’ trailing as a distant second.
So what is meant here by authoritarians? “Authoritarians obey. They rally to and follow strong leaders. And they respond aggressively to outsiders, especially when they feel threatened,” MacWilliams said.
Polling data suggests roughly 18 to 30 percent of Americans fall into this camp, and that more can be swayed to support political “strong men” when they feel under threat. ... MacWilliams says that 49 percent of the likely Republican voters he surveyed scored in the top quarter of the authoritarian scale, more than twice as many as Democratic voters.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-25/got-authoritarian-streak-study-says-odds-are-youre-trump(Remembering that the Democratic Party still includes fair numbers of conservative voters left over from the days when the parties were more geographically defined and far more mixed ideologically and also of relatively absolutist farther left voters who may respond to authoritarian leaders.)
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