Governments with elements of democracy and authoritarianism can happen as one form transitions into the other. Also called "hybrid regimes." Totalitarianism is authoritarianism taken to its extreme.

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"It wasn't so much authoritarian as was totalitarian," he said in an interview with Fox News Digital, adding he also believed it to be "un-American." "The whole point is to serve the community.

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