<anger>

Maybe it looks to you as if those who voted for Trump believed they were acting _against_ authoritarians, but I've lived among them.

I was still living in their midst when they tarred and feathered the Dixie Chicks (as they were then) for having the audacity to say GWB's Iraq Adventure might not be the most wonderful thing since sliced mayonnaise. (could we say they "cancelled" the Chicks?)

Then they claimed to be voting for DJT (a public figure whose bully bona fides go back at least 4 decades, eg https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6131533-trumpdeathpe... ) on an "isolationist" platform.

But now they're cheering Operation Southern Spear as if it were a homecoming game, as they did for GHB's Iraq. My local paper even had https://x.com/KatieMiller/status/2007541679293944266 (sorry for the X link) in it this morning.

They may say they're voting on a mind-your-own-business-principle, but whenever you look at what they do, they've consistently been voting on a leader-principle.

</anger>

Q. How do you describe a principled authoritarian follower?

A. "The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind"

  Inner Party  Pigs
  Outer Party  Dogs
  Proles       the Equal animals