From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:
It turns out I underestimated the consequences of the COVID-19 precedent. A “racial equity crisis?” The racism of the “Anti-Racist” movement has reached the top of the American government. If you can look at statistical disparities based on racial groups as a “crisis,” what can’t be deemed a “crisis” justifying the next authoritarian wave by whomever happens to be in the White House at the time?
Trump was accused of pushing America toward more authoritarianism. There’s truth in that. He did. But his authoritarianism was more bluster than real. Trump’s authoritarianism is non-ideological power-lust. That’s dictatorial, for sure. Now, under Biden, we are going to see what real authoritarianism looks like, Biden style. It’s much more dangerous, because the Democratic Party’s authoritarianism is ideologically driven.
Ideology tends to be all-encompassing. Thus, an ideology (or philosophy) rooted in individualism leads in the direction of a fully free society, and the United States of America. A collectivist ideology leads to the totalitarian state, and the likes of the Soviet Union. Whereas an authoritarian like Trump tends to want to force his will on things that interests him, limiting its scope, an statist ideology tends to lead to totalitarianism.
And the Democratic Left’s is a statist ideology, specifically collectivist, which goes way beyond Trumpism. Statist ideology leads not just to authoritarianism but to totalitarianism, as Italian Facism, Nazism, Communism, and theocracy do. The Biden Administration won’t end in totalitarianism. But that’s its orientation, because it’s socialism, by design. Whereas Trump-style authoritarianism is simply bullying people, socialism is subordination of all individual affairs to state authority.