What do liberals mean by "authoritarian"?
The discourse on authoritarianism has significantly ramped up over the past decade:
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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…