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I still think you are trying to connect personalities to ideologies. And my point is that the study does not do that. It doesn't go this far, but it is my opinion that you cannot. At least not in a meaningful way.Well that make's sense, especially given your definition of a liberal. Liberal means something completely different where I live, in fact I'd class most people on this forum as liberal (and not socialist authoritarians). It'd be very weird if the people with essentially the views opposed to authoritarianism self identified or otherwise, were narcissists in general. Not impossible, but weird.
You can take the most noble and pure ideology* and there will still be narcissistic hangers-on, egomaniacs hoping to ride the wave, scumbags hoping to exploit it, and so on. Now, the studies authors are making a very narrow claim that, when you select for the narcissists (which itself has many dimensions) the ones hopping on the liberal train tend toward exhibitionism-narcissism and the ones hopping on the conservative train tend toward entitlement-narcissism.
Notably, they are NOT saying "liberals are narcissists of the exhibitionist kind" and "conservatives are narcissists of the sense of entitlement kind". In fact, they are not, as you state, saying anything "in general" about liberals or conservatives.
They are saying that of all liberals, those who are narcissistic, tend toward exhibitionism. And, of all conservatives those who are narcissistic tend to be the entitled kind.
This next part is not in response to or aimed at you specifically @Spokey :
I think a lot of people jump on a thread like this hoping to be able to find that those they identify with are "good" and those they identify against are "bad". I give the authors credit for being neutral on this. But seriously, anybody who regards themselves as anti-authoritarian, who aspires to "Perceive, Think, Act.", owes themselves something. And that is, if you find yourself cheering for your team, and against the other team, you should immediately quit your team and question why you ever joined it. That is, unless you are actually watching a sporting event.
*And no, of course there is no such thing as a noble and pure ideology. Or, rather, they all are. But who cares?