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What do liberals mean by "authoritarian"?

What do liberals mean by "authoritarian"?

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Carl Beijer
Mar 08, 2018
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The discourse on authoritarianism has significantly ramped up over the past decade:

Though Google trends can be an unreliable guide, the growth here maps onto some intuitive milestones: the first major spike corresponds directly with Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday victories in the Republican primaries, and the next corresponds to his general election victo…

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