That's probably because the vast majority of the US right (at least) are either authoritarian leaders or authoritarian followers (more of the latter than the former). You'd be hard-pressed to find many real leftish authoritarians in the US; then again, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the US who was left of centre-right in a sane political system (that is, one where the Overton window of political discourse hasn't been pulled hard to the right for the past three decades or so).
Progressives in the US generally can't come to a unanimous consensus on what to have for lunch, let alone policy positions, which is generally why they get steamrollered by the hard right -- there are entirely too many people in the US who will vote for someone who espouses a clearly-articulated position on that basis alone, never minding what the policy proposals actually are. (The fact that most progressive policy proposals can't be boiled down into bumperstickerish sound bites only complicates the problem.)
In some ways, it's easier to be a Canadian leftist (not that there are many genuine leftists in the US -- there aren't, but I am a Canadian leftist): There are some pretty clearly defined "left" positions in the Canadian political discourse, some of which are not, in fact, "left" positions anywhere else. (Is there another country in the world where a sort of knee-jerk patriotism is a genuinely left position? Is there another country in the world where the political right genuinely despises its own country and wants to be part of another one?)
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Progressives in the US generally can't come to a unanimous consensus on what to have for lunch, let alone policy positions, which is generally why they get steamrollered by the hard right -- there are entirely too many people in the US who will vote for someone who espouses a clearly-articulated position on that basis alone, never minding what the policy proposals actually are. (The fact that most progressive policy proposals can't be boiled down into bumperstickerish sound bites only complicates the problem.)
In some ways, it's easier to be a Canadian leftist (not that there are many genuine leftists in the US -- there aren't, but I am a Canadian leftist): There are some pretty clearly defined "left" positions in the Canadian political discourse, some of which are not, in fact, "left" positions anywhere else. (Is there another country in the world where a sort of knee-jerk patriotism is a genuinely left position? Is there another country in the world where the political right genuinely despises its own country and wants to be part of another one?)