A: Good question. He is almost damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. One thing is certain, the Biden presidency represents an almost immediate slide into totalitarianism.
What has happened in Australia and other countries most recently with the strong vaccination measures is not really uplifting. Perhaps the slide into totalitarianism was not only for the US?
Totalitarianism in the dictionary and the Wiki
Below are a few excerpts to try and capture some meanings of the word totalitarianism
The definition of
totalitarianism from the Cambridge Dictionary is.
a
political system in which those in
power have
complete control and do not
allow anyone to
oppose them:
The above is in some countries still not fitting, but to look the signs here are descriptions from the Wiki for
totalitarianism
The founder of Italian Fascism,
Benito Mussolini, defined fascism as such: "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." Schmitt used the term
Totalstaat (literally "Total state") in his influential 1927 work titled
The Concept of the Political, which described the legal basis of an all-powerful state.
[16]
At the present "the state" it is more like a global super state as policies are rolled out in several countries in parallel, or if not yet global then one could divide the world into two - four regional empires.
One can also compare the current situation with the description below, and look for how much is still missing:
In an influential 1964 work,
[4] the political scientist
Juan Linz defined authoritarianism as possessing four qualities:
- Limited political pluralism, realized with constraints on the legislature, political parties and interest groups.
- Political legitimacy based upon appeals to emotion and identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems, such as underdevelopment or insurgency."
- Minimal political mobilization, and suppression of anti-regime activities.
- Ill-defined executive powers, often vague and shifting, which extends the power of the executive.[5][6]
If totalitarianism is the future, growing presence in some places, what about the more recent past in the same countries. That type of administration might resemble that of a
Guided democracy
Guided democracy, also called
managed democracy,
[1] is a formally
democratic government that functions as a
de facto authoritarian government or in some cases, as an
autocratic government. Such governments are legitimized by elections that are free and fair, but do not change the
state's policies, motives, and goals.
[2]
In other words, the government controls elections so that the people can exercise all their rights without truly changing public policy. While they follow basic
democratic principles, there can be major deviations towards
authoritarianism. Under managed democracy, the state's continuous use of
propaganda techniques prevents the electorate from having a significant impact on policy.
[3]
Election issues would be a very special form of propaganda technique

It amounts to convincing people they did not vote for what they voted for, but it seems to work.
The above explanation of managed democracy, does not capture that some of the influencing was run by huge cooperations like Google, which strictly speaking are not a apart of the state. But then, if huge cooperations align themselves with the state, and the state also support the cooperations, then a
"Totalstaat" or
"Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." is on the horizon.