This is the sort of thing that makes us libertarians nuts. Sure, we will criticize the Republicans for their authoritarianism on multiple fronts. But this is a classic authoritarianism for me but not for thee arugment
The authors imply R authoritarianism is unique or substantially greater than authoritarianism on the Left. This is crazy. This year, mainly Democrat governors have shut down most businesses & locked people in their homes from MONTHS -- this has been unprecedented authoritarianism
In fact, in this election Democrats like Biden are running against Trump and Republicans specifically for being insufficiently authoritarian vis a vis COVID.
I presume @voxdotcom and other folks on the Left would answer "Yes, but our authoritarianism was justified and necessary and Trump's is just evil."
But at this point one has abandoned the original argument that one party is more authoritarian than the other, and just made it a political argument about whose authoritarianism is justified, making a mockery of the original article.
This confirms a theory I have had for a while, that people don't or can't even recognize their own authoritarian impulses because, perhaps subliminally, their brains have redefined authoritarianism from "state use of force on individuals" to "things I don't agree with."
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