The Moral Foundations of Left-Wing Authoritarianism: On the Character, Cohesion, and Clout of Tribal Equalitarian Discourse

Abstract Left-wing authoritarianism remains far less understood than right-wing authoritarianism. We contribute to literature on the former, which typically relies surveys, using a new social media analytic approach. use list of 60 terms provide an exploratory sketch outlines political ideology – tribal equalitarianism with origins in 19th and 20th century philosophy. then analyses English Corpus Google Books (n > 8 million books) scraped unique tweets from Twitter = 202,582) conduct series investigations discern extent this is cohesive amongst public, reveals signatures has been growing popularity. Though exploratory, our results some evidence left-wing two forms: (1) uniquely conservative signature ostensible liberals measures derived Moral Foundations Theory (2) substantial prevalence anger, relative anxiety or sadness, analyzed for sentiment. In general, indicate that worldview popularity, increasingly cohesive, shows