I've been trying to always use the word "dictator" or "dictatorship" because I don't think many Americans know what "authoritarian" means. They hear the word "authority" and they like the sound of it. When the main stream media uses that term, it has no negative connotation to most Americans, but MSM is too uninterested to realize their mistake. You are right, nobody should be using "authoritarian" to describe the extremes Trump and his goons are going to.
Don’t ever forget that Trump “loves the uneducated” for a reason. If American public education, particularly in red states, hadn’t been so downgraded and starved of resources, more people would have been able to see right through all this bull crap by at least 2022.
I've been trying to always use the word "dictator" or "dictatorship" because I don't think many Americans know what "authoritarian" means. They hear the word "authority" and they like the sound of it. When the main stream media uses that term, it has no negative connotation to most Americans, but MSM is too uninterested to realize their mistake. You are right, nobody should be using "authoritarian" to describe the extremes Trump and his goons are going to.
Don’t ever forget that Trump “loves the uneducated” for a reason. If American public education, particularly in red states, hadn’t been so downgraded and starved of resources, more people would have been able to see right through all this bull crap by at least 2022.
Very interesting point. Something for Sarah Longwell's focus groups.