America is not as bad as that. Probably because we have guns, and we keep them as a constant warning to the government, so they know we could kill them if we really wanted.
But still they are creeping in with the authoritarianism more slowly. For example they are trying to control what we can say and hear from each other on the internet.
And they are destroying the economy, and borrowing money that our grandchildren couldn't pay. They say the last action of a dying empire is to loot the treasury, and it's starting to feel like that.