I mean, as much as I hate invoking it because of PCM - that’s kind of the idea behind the political compass.
Instead of just left-right, there’s also up-down where “up” is in favor of centralized power and “down” is in favor of decentralized power.
Tankies just value authoritarianism more than they value the traditional left-right dynamic. They prefer politics near the top of the political compass, even if those politics aren’t in alignment to the left/right of their own.
As the horsehoe theory which came out of it that political compass is garbage though, constructed by right wing libertarians as a propaganda tool for their ideology, it doesn’t reflect actual political theories.
I mean, as much as I hate invoking it because of PCM - that’s kind of the idea behind the political compass.
Instead of just left-right, there’s also up-down where “up” is in favor of centralized power and “down” is in favor of decentralized power.
Tankies just value authoritarianism more than they value the traditional left-right dynamic. They prefer politics near the top of the political compass, even if those politics aren’t in alignment to the left/right of their own.
As the horsehoe theory which came out of it that political compass is garbage though, constructed by right wing libertarians as a propaganda tool for their ideology, it doesn’t reflect actual political theories.