Kamala Harris sounds a lot like an authoritarian

It is unsurprising that Harris openly bragged about having “a huge stick” as a prosecutor in San Francisco who threatened poor parents with jail time in an effort to craft social policy that was not within her bailiwick. You can imagine what kind of things she has in store for personal freedom when she can brandish the huge stick of executive branch. Her despicable actions during the Brett Kavanaugh trial offers us a taste of how effortlessly she embraces abusing the process and her power to get her way.

She’s not alone. There seems quite a bit some confusion among liberals, who view anything that undermines their policy goals as an attack on “democracy.” Your good intentions do not make state coercion any less authoritarian. Your ability to find electoral support for your state coercion does not make that policy any less authoritarian. Even if you’re right about the outcomes of those policies, and state control greatly improves the lives of Americans, it can still be authoritarian.