...and by the way, multinational corporations are the most authoritarian entities in the history of everything, and being employed by one is a thousand times worse than working for Hitler. And liberals absolutely love multinational corporations when they progressify and diversity-wash their public images.
Nah, not really buying this.
First up, conservatives absolutely love corporations. They're a major part of the power structure. And you do see conservatives bending over backwards to justify the actions of corporate leaders as good and proper, and downplaying their crimes when they occur. Which is totally in line with what Bob Altermeyer writes about how authoritarians react to challenges to the status quo.
Sources of authority include religious, economic, military, law enforcement and government. Notably, it's only really the
elected part of this that I see conservatives having any problem with over-reach. The non-elected parts of this power structure seem fine and dandy to most conservatives.
Sure, the conservatives have some names they pull out to try and prove they're not 100% sucking the dicks of rich people, but that list of names is very small, and the logic is retarded: rather than the stratified system of wealth and ownership being a problem, it's that one guy
George Soros who's responsible for 90% of the problems with America. So a structural / class issue is reduced to "if we could only get rid of that one (Jewish) rotten apple", which prevents people logically thinking through the issue at all. It's a red herring basically.
Meanwhile we have the "liberal" version of authoritarianism, which looks to mainly be concerned with limiting how much power one person can wield over another.
EDIT: But none of that is to say that a new form of Authoritarianism could grow up around what were previously "liberal" ideas. Look at conservative support for some proposals that were previously seen as extreme liberal positions, but have been around so many generations they've become the status quo. Additionally, look at some intolerant campus types for a microcosm of that occurring. Bob Altermeyer writes about how authoritarians like to blend in, to be conventional, to go with the flow. With
Political Correctness becoming the dominant ideology on college campuses, many of these same types of personalities could attach themselves to this rather than something else. Because to attach yourself to something unpopular is to stand out, to not be part of the herd, which is against how this personality type thinks. So it's theoretically possible for a progressive movement to be hijacked by the influx of a lot of people who in previous generations would have become conservatives. Getting too popular and mainstream for you own good, basically.