Those with the syndrome often display aggression toward outgroup members, submissiveness to authority, resistance to new experiences, and a rigid hierarchical view of society. The syndrome is often triggered by fear, making it easy for leaders who exaggerate threat or fear monger to gain their allegiance.

Although authoritarian personality is found among liberals, it is more common among the right-wing around the world. President Trump’s speeches, which are laced with absolutist terms like “losers” and “complete disasters,” are naturally appealing to those with the syndrome.

refers to people who have a preference for the societal hierarchy of groups, specifically with a structure in which the high-status groups have dominance over the low-status ones. Those with SDO are typically dominant, tough-minded, and driven by self-interest.

it’s important to note that there is growing evidence that Trump’s white supporters have experienced significantly less contact with minorities than other Americans. For example, a 2016 study found that “…the racial and ethnic isolation of Whites at the zip-code level is one of the strongest predictors of Trump support.”

Relative deprivation refers to the experience of being deprived of something to which one believes they are entitled.

Poll: Republican voters much more likely to vote in 2018 than Democrats

75% of people who strongly approve of President Trump and 65% of Republicans overall say they are "absolutely certain" to vote in the 2018 midterm election, a new Washington Post/ABC News poll has found.

theweek.com

Historically, Democrats have struggled to bring voters to the polls for midterms, with Republican turnout 17 percent higher than Democratic turnout under Democratic presidents and 6 percent higher under Republican presidents. In the poll, 57 percent of Democrats said they were certain to vote in 2018, as did 61 percent of strong Trump critics. Of all adults, 53 percent said they wanted Democrats to take control of Congress in 2018 “to act as a check on Trump.

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices”

― George Orwell

Jim Acosta: “Just to follow-up on that, you were talking about the steel worker in Ohio, coal worker in Pennsylvania, but they may have an elderly mother who depends on the Meals on Wheels program or who may have kids in Head Start. Yesterday, or the day before, you described this as a hard-power budget. Is it also a hard-hearted budget?”

Mick Mulvaney: “No, I don’t think so, I think it’s probably one of the most compassionate things we can do.”

Acosta: “To cut programs that help the elderly and kids?”

Mulvaney: “You’re only focusing on half of the equation, right? You’re focusing on the recipients of the money. We’re trying to focus on both the recipients of the money and the folks who give us the money in the first place. And I think it’s fairly compassionate to go to them and say, ‘Look, we’re not gonna ask you for your hard-earned money, anymore, single mother of two in Detroit … unless we can guarantee to you that that money is actually being used in a proper function.’”

The CDBGs have been identified as programs since I believe the first — actually, the second Bush administration as ones that were just not showing any results. We can’t do that anymore. We can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good.

And Meals on Wheels sounds great — again, that’s a state decision to fund that particular portion to. But to take the federal money and give it to the states and say, look, we want to give you money for programs that don’t work — I can’t defend that anymore. We cannot defend that anymore. We’re $20 trillion in debt, going to spend money, we’re going to spend a lot of money, but we’re not going to spend it on programs that cannot show that they actually deliver the promises that we’ve made to people.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what...These are people who pay no income tax.

Today, 70 percent of Americans get more benefits from the federal government in dollar value than they pay back in taxes. So you could argue that we’re already past that [moral] tipping point. The good news is survey after survey, poll after poll, still shows that we are a center-right 70–30 country. Seventy percent of Americans want the American dream. They believe in the American idea. Only 30 percent want their welfare state.