Authoritarian follower

Overview

The authoritarian follower is one of the two main types of authoritarian mindset personality. This type of personality generally has the following traits (source: The Authoritarians):

• a high degree of submission to the established, legitimate authorities in their society
• high levels of aggression in the name of their authorities
• a high level of conventionalism

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In the United States, authoritarian followers tend to be conservative and tend to belong to the Republican Party. In other countries, they may follow whatever political party has the air of being the most "proper" or "traditional", or they may simply align themselves with whichever party seems to be the dominant political force.