The Trumped GOP embraces authoritarianism, abandons libertarianism.

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When you hear a deranged Trump bum kisser raving about his demons, he may not be parroting the revilement of the boogyman one is likely to assume.

"OWN DA LIBS!"​

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The advocacy of small, restrained government had been a conservative mainstay in the halcyon days of Barry Goldwater, finally fizzling out with Congressman Justin Amash’s acknowledgement of the primacy of the dogma of rabid statists, the Party of Lincoln going full-blown Bolsonaro.

Contemptuously dismissing "The Will of the People" is a pre-requisite.

Brazil's Bolsonaro echoes Trump's election fraud claims​

Authoritarianism is typically characterized by abject reverence for a bully blowhard, self-subjugators having an affinity for vapid bluster, blatant lies, and egomaniacal puffery:

Everything Trump says he knows "more about than anybody"

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The surface scum currently features a petty despot blundering into arrogant distain for medicine, science, education, business, etc., imposing draconian state edicts upon local communities.

The shtick succeeds until it doesn't.

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Telling how Repubs wrap themselves in the notion of personal control over one's life, keeping the gubermint at bay, while thwarting the collective will of the majority at every turn by means of government (blocking legislation) intervention.