Note to Mods: Not one of the posts in response to this thread have posted a credible response.
Because your sincerity was so credible when you created it, right?
The OP was posted in the correct forum, Politics. Did I believe I did not use trump in the OP intentionally? Of course, that would have put a couple of the Mods to move the OP to the flame zone or other forums where trump supporters would attack the messenger.
In fact I got what I wanted. An OP which was neutral, per se, a definition of authoritarianism and a statement by me to point out that Western Democratic Republics were just that - pointing out the names of authoritarians who governed exactly in the manner defined in the OP.
Thus those above immediately saw trump's form of leadership as congruent with these leaders, and their responses where classic examples of denial and a need to defend their egos with attacks on the messenger.