“Authoritarians” is also mostly an empty accusation. There’s no realy consistency about how it’s used. People claim any government they don’t like is “authoritarian” but generally can’t explain how the features of the government they don’t like differ from the governments they do like. They also often have very naive or just flat out wrong ideas about how governments they like work.

Wtf is this failed at Civics 101 nonsense.

Authoritarian governance is when power is consolidated in fewer hands, and doesn’t change hands, like a Monarch or a Dictator.

The antidote to an authoritarian government is checks and balances that spread out authority among different branches and give them methods of accountability towards each other.

If you have a dictator in power for 2 decades, that’s an authoritarian government.