John Dean
<div class="header-list-style" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="entry-title grid-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px">=</h2><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">=</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/submissive-fearful-and-l/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/submissive-fearful-and-l/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump has tapped into a wellspring of authoritarianism running beneath the American electorate, according to a new book, and those voters aren't going away if he loses.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Psychology professor Bob Altemeyer and <b>former Nixon White House lawyer John Dean</b> explore that anti-democratic dynamic in their new book, "Authoritarian Nightmare," and found that many Republican voters prefer strong authoritarian leadership</span>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/12/trump-voter-authoritarian-research/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">reported the <em>Washington Post</em></a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"[Many Trump supporters] are submissive, fearful, and longing for a mighty leader who will protect them from life's threats," the authors write. "They divide the world into friend and foe, with the latter greatly outnumbering the former."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The authors measure authoritarianism using the right-wing authoritarian (RWA) scale Altemeyer developed in the early 1980s, which identifies authoritarian tendencies on a sliding scale, and surveyed 990 American voters in fall 2019 with help from the Monmouth University Polling Institute.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"They found a striking linear relationship between support for Trump and an authoritarian mind-set," </b>the <em>Post</em> reported. "The stronger a person supported Trump, the higher he or she scored on the RWA scale. People saying they strongly disapproved of Trump, for instance, had an average RWA score of 54. Those indicating complete support of the president, on the other hand, had an average score of 119, more than twice as authoritarian as Trump opponents."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many experts from a variety of fields agree that Trump displays authoritarian tendencies and poses a threat to U.S. democracy, but he needs his supporters to impose his will on American institutions and traditions.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Even if Donald Trump disappeared tomorrow," Altemeyer and Dean write, "the millions of people who made him president would be ready to make someone else similar president instead."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</h2><h2 class="entry-title grid-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px"></h2><h2 class="entry-title grid-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/john-dean-helped-bring-down-nixon-but-he-says-trump-is-unleashing-a-nightmare-that-is-far-worse/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;">John Dean helped bring down Nixon — but he says Trump is unleashing a nightmare that is far worse</a></h2><div class="grid-post-box-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-size: inherit;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/amy-goodman/" title="Posts by Amy Goodman" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit;">Amy Goodman</a>, <a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/democracy-now/" title="Posts by Democracy Now" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit;">Democracy Now</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-size: inherit;">August 28, 2020</span></div></div><div class="item-content entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;">As President Trump is set to accept the Republican Party’s formal renomination for president amid ongoing scandals and multiple crises, we spoke with John Dean, who served as the White…</p></div>