“…Nevertheless, recent studies suggest that there are differences at least in perceptions of threat, consistent with the proposed account (Brandt et al, 2021;Kahn et al, 2022): Right-wing conservative ideology tends to be associated with concern about terrorism, war, and immigration (i.e., threats to the normative order), while left-wing ideology tends to be associated with concern about poverty, climate change, inequality, and racism (i.e., threats to progressive values). Furthermore, Benjamin et al (2022) found that liberals were more distressed by low democracy than conservatives were, but this difference disappeared when the ruling party was liberal, which plausibly reduces the perceived threat to progressive values.…”