So news supports resort to weak tags like “authoritarian” and “oppressor” when criticizing Trumpism
If you intended to supply ornate cover for fascism, you would certainly call it “authoritarianism.”
“Tyrannical” is an ineffective word for an autocrat, and “totalitarian” isn’t much better.
Weak labels for tyranny
The root of “tyrannical” is, obviously, “authority,” which isn’t a pejorative word. Authority relates to the power to affect or command thought or behavior, which power can be legitimate and willingly offered. We speak of governmental companies as having the authority to carry out policies in their domain names. We speak of an argument or text as having the authority to command consent due to its rational value. Or we state a professional is a trusted authority on some subject.
In the centrist discourses you see playing out in the corporate news electrical outlets that try to criticize Trumpism, “authoritarian” is supposed to be a pejorative word, however that’s approximate due to the fact that the origin definition isn’t pejorative in all. Therefore, the talk of authoritarianism is puzzled. The word sends out blended messages, so it’s poor in a protection against the wickedness concerned.