@georgetakei Conservatives have had authoritarian tendencies before, from Mussolini to Pinochet to Francisco Franco and (you could say) Margaret Thatcher. What's different this time is the quasi-religious trappings of this one man, complete with messianic and martyrdom references. It looks like this movement will not only have to be defeated at the polls but destroyed utterly and its adherents deprogrammed, since those who come out of the trance claim they were brainwashed...