The article goes on to claim that Trump supporters, and Republicans in recent years, are more anti-democratic than Democrats. Now this is possible. Conservatives traditionally have had a healthy fear of democracy, healthy in the sense that they do not want “the mob” to take away precious individual rights by majority decision. It can be argued that in recent years, this healthy fear has transformed itself into an unhealthy obsession, so they are unable to discern any difference between tyrannical efforts of oppression and reasonable public health and safety concerns.
But being anti-democratic doesn’t necessarily mean being pro-authoritarian. For conservatives, the alternative to democracy isn’t more power to the state, it’s “leave us alone.” Of course this often does not apply to minorities or the disadvantaged. In those cases most conservatives seem to favor a strong “law and order” approach- the closest they come to authoritarianism.