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John Dean: Authoritarian Nightmare; Trump and His Followers

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John Dean: Authoritarian Nightmare; Trump and His Followers
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John Dean is co-author of the new book, Authoritarian Nightmare; Trump and His Followers, with Bob Altemeyer. Dean served as White House counsel for president Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1973. His Watergate testimony helped lead to Nixon's resignation. Past books include Worse than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience



"Like it or not, authoritarianism is on the ballot this November and to defeat it, we must understand it. "



Pre-interview notes

Why did you write this book and what do you want it to accomplish?


Essentially, authoritarianism is"..

Followers


You talk about Authoritarians, Autocrats, Demagogues and dictators. Please parse the differences and similarities for them and their followers.


What's the difference between Democracy and Autocracy

When do demagogues rise?


Authoritarians are usually elected and then they subvert the constitution



There are right and left wing authoritarians?

Discuss the connection between Authoritarianism and narcissism.
You say "Trump brings out the worst in people."

I have a theory that the worst plague Trump will bring to the US and the world will be the unleashing and unrestraining of narcissists and psychopaths.


Early Trump story

authoritarian TV personality


His supporters were "coiled like a tightly wound spring"


The next dictator is already watching Trump, how to do what he's done even better.

Authoritarians:
Social Dominator Authoritarians SD and Authoritarian Followers, Double Highs

Trump got 71% of white male voters without a college degree
Lost jobs, but also feeling of stolen White birthright


How Trump rolled up the social dominators:

Racial superiority meant a great deal.
Social dominators score high on the conman score, don't believe in right and wrong" psychopaths?



Unleashing authoritarianism and narcissism AND Psychopaths


Authoritarian Followers
Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump

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High degree of submission to the perceived, established, legitimate authorities in society
" High level of aggression in the name of their authorities
" High level of conventionalism, insisting that others follow the norms endorsed by their authorities (Taliban)

Right wing authoritarians are not necessarily right wing politically.
What about Democrats and lefties?


Right wing authoritarianism Scale (RWA) and Monmouth poll p 128

7 traits
" highly compartmentalized thinking
how they handle doubts

high vs low RWA

flimsy belief in America's values
have only a superficial belief in liberty and democracy
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double standard judgments

believe many conflicting and even contradictory things,
less careful thinking,
more responsive to bombast
Difficulty judging evidence

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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
 

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