Social dominators, with their preference for keeping-things-as-they-are, might have generally preferred the Republican Party before 2008. But they probably began rushing pell-mell to the GOP banner when Barack Obama became the Democratic nominee in 2008. Trump’s candidacy in 2016 just produced the final wave of a decades-long migration of social dominators and other authoritarians into the GOP camp as the party leaders who invited them in held the gates wide open.
