> you preserve your ideals by helping elect an autocrat from the other side Harris was an authoritarian, but not an autocrat. People got sick of ever-growing b

> you preserve your ideals by helping elect an autocrat from the other side Harris was an authoritarian, but not an autocrat. People got sick of ever-growing bureaucratic authoritarianism, but made the mistake of thinking the problem was the bureaucracy rather than the authoritarianism. So now the bureaucracy has been smashed and we are left with autocratic authoritarianism.