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Pinochet Regime and US Republican Party
Measured distance across six axes
Different families with real common ground. They agree within three points on EC, CU, ID. No axis separates them by eight points or more.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Pinochet Regime | GOP | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +09 | +06 | 3 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | +06 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +10 | +03 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | 00 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +05 | +04 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +04 | −03 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
Pinochet Regime · AU +10
At the ceiling. Congress dissolved, parties banned, opposition disappeared.
- Documented act or statuteCongress was dissolved and parties banned by decree after the September 1973 coup.
- Documented act or statuteThe Rettig and Valech commissions documented over three thousand killed or disappeared and tens of thousands tortured.
GOP · AU +03
The most disputed cell in this entry. Coded mildly positive on the institutional party, distinct from the movement entry.
- Comparative datasetV-Party's Illiberalism Index records substantial movement in the illiberal direction between 2000 and 2018 with no corresponding movement on economic left–right.
- Documented act or statuteParty organisations in several states certified the 2020 result against pressure from the national campaign.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
Pinochet Regime
1973–1990 · Chile
Free-market restructuring imposed by a military junta after the violent overthrow of an elected government.
US Republican Party
1854– · United States
Limited federal government, lower taxes, strong defence, religious and family traditionalism, gun rights.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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