The horror of people willing to die for Donald Trump

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. It's very bizarre to most of us, but...

... it's apparently a trait of right-wing authoritarians toward their "strong leader".

The best predictor of a Trump supporter during the 2016 GOP primaries was right-wing authoritarian (RWA) personality. (Since many RWA's become fundamentalists, it's not too surprising that so many evangelical Christians voted for Trump too.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarian_personality

Submissiveness

Right-wing authoritarians tend to accept what their leaders say is true and readily comply with their commands. They believe that respecting authority is an important moral virtue that everyone in the community must hold. They tend to place strict limits on how far the authorities can be criticized, and believe that the critics are troublemakers who don't know what they are talking about. RWAs are extremely submissive even to authority figures who are dishonest, corrupt, and inept. They will insist that their leaders are honest, caring, and competent, dismissing any evidence to the contrary as either false or inconsequential. They believe that the authorities have the right to make their own decisions, even if that includes breaking the rules that they impose on everyone else.

It really blows my mind that someone might decide to even kill their own family members if they're perceived to be opposed to the "strong leader", but that can happen too... like in Nazi Germany decades ago in regard to Hitler.