How illiberal is the American voter?

About one of every four Americans is dangerously illiberal

Jan 17, 2021

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Friends,

I wrote to you all last week about how the attack on the Capitol is a consequence of incentives toward authoritarianism from political psychology, opinion leaders, and America's electoral institutions. There was a good amount of social science mentioned in that post, and while it was rather long already (at 3,000 words!), it seemed to lack some contextual public opinion information about just how popular authoritarian attitudes are today.

I want to remedy that with a brief post this week. So, just how illiberal is the average American voter?

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