But policy is a genuine materialization of their powers vs what people believe they will do with them. For all his faults I struggle to understand how Trump was

But policy is a genuine materialization of their powers vs what people believe they will do with them. For all his faults I struggle to understand how Trump was in any way "Authoritarian"/ "Fascist" when his policies did not reflect that position, at least relative to his opponents. I find this rhetoric concerning since it isn't all that different than the hysteria about Obama's "FEMA camps" and when republicans just kept calling him Hitler over every little thing. It's fundamentally disconnected from reality and I personally see it a consequence of consuming too much propaganda. You might counter this with the whole "election overturning" thing but at the end of the day, he stepped down and stopped being president when he lost, even if his whining still persists.