Totalitarian means absolutely nothing, right? Didn't it just get created by a bunch of Western Cold War Era "scholars" to scaremonger over communism?

“Intimidation and an effort to silence opposition … I don’t know if there’s such a thing as leftwing fascism. If you want to just call it leftwing totalitarianism, then that’s what it is. It is a direct challenge to representative democracy now.”

"Totalitarianism is when the people I'm supposed to represent, if I were going to be an actual representative in an actual democracy, tell me I shouldn't fund genocide. And the more they say I shouldn't, the more totalitarianismer it is."