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| Art by Tamila Vdovina of the Czech Republic |
- Authoritarian submission.
Submissive, uncritical attitude toward idealized moral authorities of the
in-group.
- Authoritarian aggression.
Tendency to be on the lookout for, and to condemn, reject, and punish people
who violate conventional values.
- Anti-intraception. Opposition
to the subjective, the imaginative, the tender-minded.
- Superstition and stereotypying.
The belief in mystical determinants of the individual’s fate; the disposition
to think in rigid categories.
- Power and “toughness.”
Preoccupation with the dominance-submission, strong-weak, leader-follower
dimension, identification with power-figures; overemphasis on the domineering ego;
exaggerated assertion of strength and toughness.
- Destructiveness and cynicism.
Generalized hostility, vilification of the human.
- Projectivity. The disposition
to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the world; the projection
outwards of unconscious emotional impulses.
- Sex. Exaggerated concern with
sexual “goings-on.”
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So you tell me. Who am I describing?
A typical Trump supporter, or a textbook fascist?
