Meshes quite well, thanks.

"RWA" means "right wing authoritarian" (I know, you thought the "A" was something rude), and after a lot of study, it emerges as a possible organizing principle for understanding "those people". Note how I'm avoiding the term "conservative", because another thing I understand is that RWA describes a mental architecture, loosely a personality, and that's quite a different thing than a quasi-coherent ideology cobbled together, despite its artificial patina of antiquity, starting in the late 1940s by Professor Leo Strauss of Chicago University. The Professor didn't quite believe that Americans had too much freedom, it was more subtle than that: He believed that Americans lacked discipline and restraint, and exercized their freedom too, uh, freely. A key component of his prescription was creation of a civic religion called "conservatism", made up of what we'd recognize as conservative economic theory (strangely enough, guaranteed to enlist wealthy backers) with a heaping dose of myth and mysticism and fundamentalist religion and raw nationalism to appeal to the American "volk".

In other words, this civic religion of conservativism was a meme tailor-made to lodge in the RWA mind. RWAs existed before American Conservatism, they existed before Hitler enlisted them, they existed when Ugg rallied the tribe to kill the aliens in the village next door (and build a big, beautiful wall to keep them away).

In one of the ironies that abound when you study a movement renowned for its inability to appreciate irony, at about the same time that Professor Strauss was judging Americans a fallen people, a young Egyptian exchange student named Mohammed Kotb looked around at America and came to the same conclusion about the decadence of America.

His solution was to return home to Egypt and found the Muslim Brotherhood.

But I digress. Easy to do with such a broad and morbidly fascinating subject.