But what I rarely see is people studying it and trying to understand both the draw and the origins of this deadly attraction.

Take a look at Bob Altemeyer’s “The Authoritarians”, available for free at https://theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-book/

He’s a psychologist who has studied the right-wing authoritarian personality type. Here, 'right-wing" is a term in psychology, and doesn’t mean “American political conservative in the 2020s”, though there’s a considerable amount of overlap.

There’s a lot of grim reading in this book, and some of his attempts at comic relief are a bit dad-jokey, but on the whole, I heartily recommend this to anyone who’s wondered what makes a fascist tick, and whether Trump supporters have anything in common with actual fascists (as opposed to just namecalling on the Internet).