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What's laughable (but not surprising) is that you would deny it is possible. It is a tidy arrangement when you can try to claim any elements of your side of the fence that engage in authoritarian behavior are really "right wing." Is ANTIFA right wing? Joseph Stalin is the most prolific mass murderer of the last century, and he was far left (by the American definition of it).
I don't make the habit of holding people strictly responsible for graphs of this sort, but this is really, REALLY bad. The only ones that are really defensible are Castro, Gandhi, and maybe Blair. Romney is way too high.
I gave a go at it for fun, as charting ideology is kind of a fun and interesting exercise to me. There's no perfect way to graph these things, and there are so many variables that are hard to consider (particularly with really uneven ideologies like Maoism, and the definition of authoritarianism in general as a matter of public/private, domestic/foreign, and in relation to democratic will on social issues).
I took about 15 minutes, which is still an absurdly long time for an internet post, so I didn't allocate too too much thought into it, besides what was already stored in the old noggin.
NOTE: Leninism refers to the model of government founded by Lenin following the Russian Revolution, and not to the classical Marxist theory espoused in works like State and Rev. Also, on second thought, Stalinism and fascism need to be tightened toward the middle.
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