I don't disagree about these particular violations - they're very disturbing - but I don't find them more brazen or violent. Using the power of the federal government to force Americans to take a medical intervention was also physically scary, and suppressing dissent about it - not to mention all the lockdown bs - was blatantly unconstitutional. Though the rhetoric was not racist or classist, the effect absolutely was, and it was fascist in the original definition of that word - the merging of corporate and state power.

It seems to me that authoritarianism just takes different forms - and uses different rationales - in each administration.