[Another Post-American]

This was a "light bulb on" type insight for me - I think it explains a lot of what I've seen (on FR not the least) the last few months. People are frustrated and/or scared, and they are looking for a strong leader to fix things. The problem is, this is precisely what small-government, liberty-minded conservatives don't need.

I do find some of the commentary in the article a bit goofy/biased, given the overt statism of Democrat policies for decades and their obvious tie to authoritarianism. But nonetheless I think the core finding here is valid.

[dschapin]

Interesting.

[skeeter]

It suits me.

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

Yup, the Obama robots like big govt authoritarians and now the Trump cultists like the same big govt authoritarianism ( deals )

Same hero worshipping mentality, same disregard of evidence and facts.

Sad to see so many on this conservative site fall for the dog and pony show.

But, hey, it will be great according to the Donald.

[moonhawk]

Shut up and do what I tell you.

Vote for Trump! :-)

[2ndDivisionVet]

This helps with those weird characters:

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

[SteveSCH]

That one in the spot light... He don’t look right to me... put up against THE WALL!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Ah, “authoritarianism” - the mythical concept made popular by leftwingers after WWII to explain why so many Germans became Nazis.....

[broken_clock]

I’m just looking for an adult to take charge. Cruz or Trump

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[gaijin]

How about:

“I simply LOATHE Wash, D.C.”

How about that?

[TigerClaws]

Stupid.

Obama and his Executive Orders aren’t authoritarian?

[Rusty0604]

I saw this a few times today, and think there is some merit in it. I might say this could be true of Obama supporters, although I think he is only authoritative with law abiding, tax paying U.S. citizens.

[heights]

Now Cruzbots are pulling a the ‘Authoritarian’ card, or in other words., “you’re a Nazi’’. Well, BIOYA

[The Toll]

Authoritarian as in “enforcing immigration law”? What a revelation!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They don’t believe in Post-America.

[Sgt_Schultze]

You know, the extremists are propagating the falsehood that republicans are uneducated. While it is true that many republicans have not attended college, what these extremists fail to express is that by a large majority, those who have dropped out of high school support democrats. They are their most loyal supporters.

[P-Marlowe]

I would say that the principle trait of Trump supporters is:

GULLIBILITY

[heights]

And a great many Cruzbots are raving lunatic, religious nuts. So there.

[Theophilus]

Amen and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. It says so in Two Corinthians!

[Talisker]

In other words, Trump is a man unafraid to be a man.

As opposed to...