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hedda_foil

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9. I think he's an authoritarian leader wanna be.

Reply to starshine00 (Reply #8)

Fri Feb 17, 2017, 12:52 PM

Feb 2017

But his shtick only works on the worst instincts of his authoritarian followers, and those instincts have been sharpened to a fine point by many years of exposure to Fox and Limbaugh
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I just found "The Authoritarian Personality" online [View all] starshine00 Feb 2017 OP

Doesn't apply... 45 is the least Anti-semetic President ever... just said so yesterday... mikelewis Feb 2017 #1

lol starshine00 Feb 2017 #2

Then Trump would be "only a little" anti-Semitic? Zambero Feb 2017 #3

the book deals with the ethnocentrism of authoritarians starshine00 Feb 2017 #4

IIRC, there are two sides to the authoritarian archetype... Wounded Bear Feb 2017 #6

Read Alice Miller starshine00 Feb 2017 #7

Professor Robert Altemeyer's full book "The Authoritarians" is online (pdf) too. Here's a link. hedda_foil Feb 2017 #5

thanks for the link starshine00 Feb 2017 #8

I think he's an authoritarian leader wanna be. hedda_foil Feb 2017 #9

totally agree, the groundwork has been laid starshine00 Feb 2017 #10