Another way to think about this: the motives that tell folks to 'seek social cohesion' (e.g., authoritarianism) are - at least among members of the racial/ethnic majority in the US - constrained to motives that tell them to 'keep the folks on top on top' (e.g., SDO). (1/3) https://twitter.com/ChrisPolPsych/status/1199678916170067968

Elite exponents of this worldview (e.g., Bill Barr) are unwilling or unable to confront the ways in which these motives may be at functional cross-purposes. The US right's ideological dream-world & pop-apocalypticism reflect a furious effort to square this circle. (2/3)

Not coincidentally, three of the key social-conservative elites mentioned in @Edsall's article - Barr, George, Deneen - are Catholics who have made careers out of denying that the Catholic Church has a social doctrine that is critical of free-market excess & inequality. (3/3)