democrats shouldn't "become authoritarians," they're already authoritarians. They have massive party discipline. Manchin "spoiling" that vote was what the party bosses wanted and could have predicted anyway. They just put on a performance that they wanted the opposite because they conceal their aims, which is to please their donors, and also please themselves, since most of them hold stock in the same private interests that their donors do. democrats and republicans should both be liquidated as they are the bipartisan wings of the bourgeois class dictatorship. They should be removed from authority and replaced with a proletarian class dictatorship. Why? because the alternatives to seizing power are utopian wishful thinking. You aren't going to reform your way out of this.