“…They show that the relationship between fear and right-wing orientation was positive, rather than negative (r [22,777] = 0.1038, p <.001), and so was the relationship between fear and authoritarianism (r [24,325] = 0.1748, p <.001), although these relationships were not reported in the original article. And-for those who remain skeptical, despite decades of evidence, about the existence of an "elective affinity" between authoritarianism and right-wing orientation (e.g., Conway, Houck, Gornick, & Repke, 2018;Ditto et al, 2019)-it is worth pointing out that these two variables were quite strongly correlated in the context of this very large, nationally representative survey in France (r [22,777] = 0.2284, p <.001). In addition, fear was positively correlated with rightist political orientation (or negatively correlated with leftist orientation), measured in terms of ideological self-placement (r [22,777] = 0.1038, p <.001).…”