He shut down the country when there was never an indication that a shot would stop transmission and fired people that wouldn't get the shot. People were not allowed outside while royalty went where they wanted. Later, you could see people wearing masks in cars and outside away from crowds. Control is the operative word and goal of an authoritarian. A follower of a charismatic person is a descriptive which denotes neither good or bad. A charismatic person can do good or bad and so the term is useless in trying to separate good from bad. The key to an authoritarian person is the control that is sought. Relative to presidents, one side has earned the label of control from birth to death more than the other. Generally that is well known with some advocating more freedoms lost.Nope. tjreese just twisted the narrative to fit. He just listed and incorrectly twisted what the Biden administration did to try to curtail a pandemic that the previous administration failed to do. The last administration president even admitted that he downplayed the seriousness of the virus to a reporter. But the president of the US is the leader of the country. Therefore, according to your diatribe, every president is an authoritarian. Even for the sake of argument that Biden fits your narrative. Even though the word, authoritarian is in your definition of a cult, you failed to mention anything about the followers of a charismatic leader with extreme views which is the finished definition of a cult. Now that fits this MAGA crap to a T. You have a charismatic leader in Chump. Then you have these red hat wearing followers that will defend this man to no end. A perfect example was Jan 6. On the basis of a lie from the charismatic leader that the 2020 election was stolen, these people drove and flew hundreds of miles to Washington DC for a rally. Then was told to go over to the Capitol and fight and take the country back. Then they beat the crap out of the police, and trash the building costing millions of damage including spreading human feces in the hallways. One cult member following this charismatic leader lost her life and got shot by the police. Hundreds of these followers are arrested. One by one are being sentenced to years in prison.
I knew this was a cult the day that Chump said that Sen. McCain was not a hero in Viet Nam because he was captured. Most Republicans said absolutely nothing to defend McCain. I even heard some of these cult members spread conspiracy theories that McCain did not have it so bad where he was held. Chump also said that the father of Sen. Ted Cruz was part of the Kennedy assassination plot. Again, republicans and even Ted Cruz himself did nothing and then later became a big supporter of Chump.
If control is the desire of an authoritarian leader...as it is, then history shows the unconstrained believers seeking more control rather than the evolutionary process knowing no single entity has all the answers like Fauci extending the two weeks for months contrary to understanding he doesn't have all the answers that affect all of life. Attacking the first and second as has been done, is about as authoritarian as it gets. Democrats are notorious for extending control while republicans are only slightly better...and Biden is about as bad as possible on so many aspects that ARE REAL and affect people daily...