authoritarians of any side deprecate liberal values (ie, individual liberty) & treat the individual as an expendable means to (rather than the nonexpendable ends of) their illiberal agenda
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I've always thought of it as more an up and down split between authoritarianism and libertarianism. Authoritarians on both sides seek to limit rights and freedoms and any kind of dissent, the difference is who and what they generally target. All of it just corrodes into a control system for the sake of control.
You think of authoritarianism as being halfway to authoritarianism?
No, just the original direction of the spring changes.