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You're dead-on about this always existing in America. If you look at Democracy in America, you'll notice that Toqueville, saw the potential for fascism, yet that concept did not exist, so he suggested that someone would have to name it.
Could one hypothesize an evolutionary psychology that explains how our species has persisted via simultaneous or alternating authoritarian and liberal tribal styles?
In a cynical mood I'd answer we've persisted because we hadn't invented nuclear weapons yet.
