SCALIA: "Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached."

[Hortensis]

23. THIS! Authoritarians feel that maintaining a strong

social structure is more important than individual justice. For them, this is a high principle, as Malthaussen explained so well above.

Notably, in practice, they view with great suspicion people who find themselves on the wrong side of the law, and the natural tendency is to wish to believe those people did something wrong to deserve it. Here in the deep south we are surrounded by authoritarian mindsets and find this attitude affecting thinking on virtually every social issue.

As said, an authoritarian bent is very common -- among conservatives. Religious conservatism is almost synonymous with authoritarianism, God the highest authority of all, of course.

And if it sounds like authoritarianism would be integral to fascism, yes.