Democracy and authoritarianism are both forms of government, and that is the sense of the words being used in the sentence ("Current government models, democrat

Democracy and authoritarianism are both forms of government, and that is the sense of the words being used in the sentence ("Current government models, democratic and authoritarian alike, …"). You've chosen to reinterpret one of them as an adjective unconnected to the thing it describes (government models) and then criticized the parent for a category error.