> "authoritarian ideas devised to oppress and persecute everyone around you that does not comply with your world view" This is a description of State governanc

> "authoritarian ideas devised to oppress and persecute everyone around you that does not comply with your world view" This is a description of State governance (and it's mirror image is State institutions enforcing ideas with which it agrees). This description is impossible to distinguish from any other description of functional State enforcing monopoly of violence over territory. Liberal regimes issue heavy propaganda, such as nicknaming this as 'paradox of tolerance', to create legal and philosophical fictions to enforce the ruling elite's grasp of State power. Robert Michels called it 'Iron Law of Oligarchy', Vilfredo Pareto & Gaetano Mosca described it in elite theory. There's always going to be rulers and ruled. So the issue in the "news" is not a Third Reich uprising through "accidents" of democratic voting, or an idealistic liberal regime being under threat, or an authoritarian threat, but the capture of State power and institutions away from one elite to another. The institutions and State power matter not if you cannot enforce your ideas through them. Nothing is in here which wasn't already in Thucydides.