> “What this country needs is fewer laws and agencies, and more courageous, tireless, devoted leaders whom the people can put their faith in.”

So fewer laws and agencies restricting personal liberty, and those politicians that remain should be.. well I don't even have to re-word it, do I? It is "submissive" to want brave, tireless, devoted, trustworthy leaders? We should desire cowardly, lazy, corrupt, lying ones?

> Once the individual has convinced himself that there are people who ought to be punished, he is provided with a channel through which his deepest aggressive impulses may be expressed, even while he thinks of himself as thoroughly moral.

How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-wome...

Seattle BLM protesters demand white people ‘give up’ their homes - https://nypost.com/2020/08/14/seattle-blm-protesters-demand-...

Who was Jessica Doty Whitaker? The woman shot and killed for saying ‘all lives matter’ - https://www.the-sun.com/news/1129367/jessica-doty-whitaker-a...

> Yet another crucial variable was power and “toughness,” or a penchant to identify with strong figures of authority who dominate the weak, “a disposition to view all relations among people in terms of such categories as strong-weak, dominant-submissive, leader-follower…”

..oppressed-oppressor? Vibrant diversity vs. white fragility?

> “There are some activities so flagrantly un-American that, when responsible officials won’t take the proper steps, the wide-awake citizen should take the law into his own hands.”

The 'punch a Nazi' meme: what are the ethics of punching Nazis? - https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/jan/...

US anti-fascists: ‘We can make racists afraid again’ - https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/2/21/us-anti-fascist...

And on the other side of the coin, entire so-called "sanctuary cities" deliberately impede immigration law - you could even say they are taking it into their own hands, because it is so un-American.

> It is worth reminding ourselves of the antisemitic chant of the fascists in during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017: “The Jews will not replace us,”

By the same logic, is claiming “an unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop, nonstop [..] Folks like me who are Caucasian, of European descent, for the first time in 2017 we’ll be in an absolute minority in the United States of America, absolute minority [..] Fewer than 50% of the people in America from then and on will be white European stock. That’s not a bad thing, that’s a source of our strength.” anti-white? - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-joe-biden-constan...

> This inclination to punish violators of sexual norms still looms large among the ever-more mainstream QAnon, which “picked up where Pizzagate left off.” Indeed, QAnon’s followers tenaciously cling to fantastical ideas about Satan-worshiping Democratic pedophiles that Trump alone will defeat.

Or the right's obsession with Muslim grooming gangs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexual_abuses_perpetra... (no, not all of them are Muslim)

Or the firing of a professor for a consensual relationship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Katz_(classicist)

As usual, sociology is an exercise in subtly encoding researcher's biases into a study, not objective science. And when that isn't enough, plain old selective blindness.