Who else would try to be elected into such a powerful position? I mean, why else would you run, except to exert your own authority?
Go ahead and try to fantasize about what you would do in your first week as the elected leader of your nation. Would you be tough on crime? Restrict access to guns? Criminalize transgender people? Criminalize people who want to hurt transgender people? What about war, or taxes? There's really no way to do the job without being authoritarian.
I was wondering about that! Thanks!