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[OA] The Two Dimensions of Narcissistic Personality and Support for the Radical Right: The Role of Right-wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation and Anti-immigrant Sentiment
This paper offers an explanation of the link between grandiose narcissism and support for radical right parties. Drawing on representative data of the GESIS Panel (N = 2827), focusing on support for the German radical right populist party Alternative for Germany in 2016 and treating grandiose narcissism as a two‐dimensional concept, it is shown that the effects of grandiose narcissism are indirect rather than direct.
The paper also reveals that it is mainly narcissistic rivalry that accounts for radical right party support, whereas narcissistic admiration has a protecting relationship. Finally, our results indicate that the indirect effects of narcissistic rivalry on radical right party support via right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, respectively, are mediated by anti‐immigrant sentiment.
All in all, our results suggest that in studies on ideological orientations and voting behaviour, both dimensions of grandiose narcissism should be considered due to their contradictory relationship. Moreover, our findings indicate that the success of radical right parties might be the expression of personality dispositions of some parts of the electorate.
Mayer SJ, Berning CC, Johann D. The Two Dimensions of Narcissistic Personality and Support for the Radical Right: The Role of Right-wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation and Anti-immigrant Sentiment. European Journal of Personality 2020;n/a. Error - Cookies Turned Off
This paper offers an explanation of the link between grandiose narcissism and support for radical right parties. Drawing on representative data of the GESIS Panel (N = 2827), focusing on support for the German radical right populist party Alternative for Germany in 2016 and treating grandiose narcissism as a two‐dimensional concept, it is shown that the effects of grandiose narcissism are indirect rather than direct.
The paper also reveals that it is mainly narcissistic rivalry that accounts for radical right party support, whereas narcissistic admiration has a protecting relationship. Finally, our results indicate that the indirect effects of narcissistic rivalry on radical right party support via right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, respectively, are mediated by anti‐immigrant sentiment.
All in all, our results suggest that in studies on ideological orientations and voting behaviour, both dimensions of grandiose narcissism should be considered due to their contradictory relationship. Moreover, our findings indicate that the success of radical right parties might be the expression of personality dispositions of some parts of the electorate.
Mayer SJ, Berning CC, Johann D. The Two Dimensions of Narcissistic Personality and Support for the Radical Right: The Role of Right-wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation and Anti-immigrant Sentiment. European Journal of Personality 2020;n/a. Error - Cookies Turned Off
The comparisons have come hard and fast, at least since 2015. Trump is like Silvio Berlusconi, like Adolf Hitler, like Boris Johnson. A 2018 film called “The Trump Prophecy” took the evangelical route, comparing Trump to Cyrus the Great, the 6th century BC Persian monarch chosen by God to free Jewish captives in Babylon.
But maybe it’s time to stop searching for the exact analogy for Trump, be he Cyrus or Boris, Adolf or a Silvio. What demands analysis is less the arrogant 73-year-old mediocrity in the Oval Office, but the worshipful attitude so many Americans have toward him.
A lot of nut jobs have peddled lies to Americans before, and even styled themselves as messianic. But at no time in history have so many Americans been drawn to what’s looking increasingly like a cult. I don’t use the term recklessly.
When Steven Hassan, an expert in cults and an ex-Moonie (as in the Unification Church, founded by a Korean businessman, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon), published “The Cult of Trump” last spring, some reviewers objected to his use of the cult framework as incendiary and not all that useful.
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As 2019 drew to a close, my doubts about Trumpism as a cult dissolved. And I’m not alone.
Republican lawyer George Conway reportedly described his wife, Trump’s presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway, as a member of a cult. Former GOP strategist John Weaver has used the term. https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2Fvideos%2Fmedia%2F2019%2F11%2F10%2Fscaramucci-likens-trump-to-support-cult-fox-news-vpx.cnn&data=02%7C01%7CSusan.Brenneman%40latimes.com%7C2a63fc1a4c824dff539a08d794add9b3%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637141346712068852&sdata=kb88tz7zY%2BEXU5bW5NMiEtCiAwGbUFGoUGRc4%2Bs%2BoVg%3D&reserved=0 (Anthony Scaramucci), Trump’s onetime communications director, concurs. https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2Fvideos%2Fbusiness%2F2019%2F11%2F17%2Fdan-rather-mcconnell-is-part-of-the-trump-cult&data=02%7C01%7CSusan.Brenneman%40latimes.com%7C2a63fc1a4c824dff539a08d794add9b3%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637141346712078842&sdata=mnp%2FW5wA%2B7J3iJeLY8oIJunWYLBMaiI8MR%2BGF3B9Wtc%3D&reserved=0, conservative political scientist Norman Ornstein, science journalist Steve Silberman, pastor John Pavlovitz and academic and journalist Jared Yates Sexton.
What the cult diagnosis may lack in scholarly rigor, it makes up for in explanatory power. When polled, far too many Republicans come across as having abandoned their commitment to libertarianism, family values or simple logic in favor of Trump worship. They’re lost to paranoia and factually unmoored talking points, just the way Hassan was lost to Sun Myung Moon.
It can be heartbreaking when loved ones succumb to Trumpism. (It’s a double whammy when your grief is dismissed as liberal tears.) A true believer undergoes a “radical personal change,” as Hassan puts it. The person you once knew seems somehow ... not there.
Journalists Luke O’Neil and Edwin Lyngar, as well as Jen Senko in “The Brainwashing of My Dad,” have compiled stories of Americans who have gone over. O’Neil summarized the transformation this way: “A loved one … sat down in front of Fox News, found some kind of deep, addictive comfort in the anger and paranoia, and became a different person.”
Sounds about right.
To see Trumpism as a cult is not to refuse to engage with its effects, the crimes committed in its name or the way it has awakened and emboldened the cruelest and most destructive beliefs and practices in the American playbook. Instead, the cult framework should relieve the pressure many of us feel to call Trumpites back to themselves, to keep arguing with them. They are stuck in a bad relationship with a controlling figure.
Understanding Trump is a fool’s errand. He’s sui generis, and far too erratic and finally insubstantial to reward close attention. Trump zealots are another matter. They are part of the tradition of radical converts in American history who elected to forfeit their authentic personalities and principles rather than refine or strengthen them. We need to stay focused on how so many Americans came to this pass and took this destructive course. The Trump cult will define American politics for decades to come, even after its dear leader is gone.
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President Trump’s “phase one” https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trumps-new-china-deal-cements-emergence-of-managed-trade/2020/01/15/7892c446-372b-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_1 (trade deal with China) is largely a victory for Beijing. Just measure the agreement signed this week against the initial demands made by Washington in a leaked May 2018 document. As the Financial Times concludes, with regard to the central U.S. goals, “After almost two years of negotiations, tariffs and counter-tariffs, Mr. Trump has achieved none of these objectives.”
This outcome is partly a reflection of the two sides’ staying power. China is a one-party state that can take the long view. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trumps-new-china-deal-cements-emergence-of-managed-trade/2020/01/15/7892c446-372b-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_2 (Trump gambled) that he could hurt the Chinese economy enough with tariffs that the pain to American consumers — who have paid for those tariffs — would be worth it. But the president apparently decided that he wanted to smooth the economic waters as he runs for reelection. So he folded.
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Trump Targets Michelle Obama’s School Nutrition Guidelines on Her Birthday
What a fucking cunt of a move, no matter your political stance.
What a fucking cunt of a move, no matter your political stance.
