Recent research was released confirming the relationship between people with left-wing authoritarian politics and their narcissism and psychopathy. The paper in Current Psychology is titled "Understanding left-wing authoritarianism: Relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment" by Ann Krispenz and Alex Bertrams
The research found a strong correlation between left authoritarianism and dark triad traits. It did not find greater altruism or commitment to social justice. They conclude that for these people their left-wing views are simply a way for them to express power over others. The Dark Tetrad types are using their "care for the planet and the poor" as a mask to hide their true destructive motivations and, in the case of activist men, to fool naive women into admiring them (and more) for their hypothetical moral goodness.
The correlations reported here are so high (.60) that, given measurement error, the constructs of antagonistic narcissism and left wing authoritarianism might be the same thing. Antagonistic Narcissism is defined as demonstrating manipulative and exploitative behaviors, indulging in self-perceived entitlement, arrogance, reactive anger, distrust, and lack of empathy.
note: .60 is as high as the correlation between IQ and learning (which is as high as any relationship ever reported in the psych literature) and much higher than the correlation between height and weight (.40).
Another who undertook the study of this topic was the psychotherapist Andrzej Lobaczewski. He coined the term "pathocracy" to describe the process where a pathological minority rule over a majority. He conducted secret research on the role of psychopaths in Communist Poland.
He discussed how psychopaths quickly realize the traumatic effect their personalities have on others, and realize the power this gives them to advance their goals through terror.
Since ideology is simply a means for the psychopath to liberate themselves from what they feel are oppressive normal human customs, Lobaczewski warns “Every great social movement can thereby become a host upon which some pathocracy initiates its parasitic life.” That insight is also vindicated by modern psychological research.
This paper theorized that many narcissists holding left-wing authoritarian views would just as easily hold right-authoritarian views if it provided a better vehicle to satisfy the needs of their ego. This means we would expect narcissists and psychopaths to be especially attracted to ascendant movements which allow them to cancel, dominate and terrorise others.
Today this is provided by the radical left, especially in the form of Antiwhiteism, the trans movement, and pushing the public to fear the climate.