Comment by davidw

If you read about Maduro wanting to imprison the leader of a region of Venezuela, who belongs to the opposition party, you'd call it authoritarianism.

If you read that the Secretary of Defense of Turkey declined to commit to obeying court orders, you'd call it authoritarianism.

If you read about Viktor Orban sending actual troops rather than police to a city because of a flimsy pretext, you'd call it authoritarianism.

It's happening here, and it's real. It isn't consolidated yet, but it's pretty obviously what they want.