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I know this quite well from personal experience.  As does most everyone who's spent much time in left politics in America, regardless of whether they have the vocabulary to adequately understand it.

But what's worth noting is that rightwing authoritarianism is a much broader phenomena than NPD.  We're still in our infancy of understanding, and perhaps this picture may change in the future as we gain a better understanding of folks with NPD tendencies short of the full-blown diagnosis.  But at least at present, in terms of how these terms can help us make sense of things, the authoritarian dynamics of NPDs seem much more concentrated around a significantly smaller number of figures.    

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 18:20:40 PM CDT

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Rightwing authoritarianism is baked into the ideology.  On the left it's behavioral and organizationally spread, in direct proportion, usually, to the "star power" of a given leader's profile or, at the least, self-perception.

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by: Pachacutec @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 18:42:33 PM CDT

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