The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(04-22-2020, 01:16 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: I recall mention of the Authoritarian Right in the paleo 4T site.  In USA todays version of the Authoritarian Right is a plutocratic group.  

They were largely contained during the last 1T, then started to gain traction with Reagan's presidency.  So we have seen decades of rot.

I would be careful not to pigeon hole all of the Right with the Authoritarian Right-there is also the Libertarian Right.

The proper word rather than "Authoritarian" for that pole on the political compass or Nolan grid is "statist"

The libertarians today are mostly apologists for the Reagan plutocratic right. They are anti-statist, but they are certainly plutocratic and thus authoritarian.

The political compass and Nolan grid are basically the same and mutually derived, but remember that the poles are placed in different directions on the two maps.

Libertarians (libertarian right) are at least supposed to be not so socially conservative as the nationalists, racists, xenophobes and theocratics (right-wing statists). Under Trump, though, the two right wings are joined at the hip.