Authoritarian

As is usually the case, media mimics hear a word new to them and they all try to use it every day. The new word now is "authoritarian". 

CNN's Brian Stelter: "For the most part, you have California Democrats saying, hey, it's the Trump administration that's trying to be inflammatory here. Don't fall for it. I know some other senators as well. Democratic Senator Brian Schatz calling this, quote, "authoritarian madness,"....

According to the on-line Merriam-Webster dictionary, synonyms for the adjective "authoritarian" are:

1.  of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority.

2.  of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people.

In reality, the corporate state embodies blind submission to its authority and the many functionaries that exercise it. These range from a local patrolman telling a driver to move his illegally parked car to nine black-robed justices making a decision that affects citizens from Prudhoe Bay to Guam.

It's likely that there's no longer any novelty in describing a political or cultural adversary as a fascist, commie or Marxist. "Authoritarian" could easily describe the health inspector that decides if your new pizza parlor is satisfactory for the customers' safety, on what date you are permitted to catch fish in a certain location, the features that must be present on a bicycle before it can be commercially offered for sale. 

The primacy of authority is simply something that goes along with all governments.