Projecting Authoritarian Personality Onto Tea Partiers

David N. Bass is perplexed by the recently released study titled "The Cultures of the Tea Party" led by Andrew Perrin of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Steven Tepper of Vanderbilt University. In the study, Perrin and company concluded that authoritarianism was one of the "primary cultural dispositions among those who feel positively toward the TPM."

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