Graft and corruption is normal in any human endeavor. What I mean is that the right wants a straight up Russian-style kleptocracy.
Your take on authoritarianism seems odd. It's driven by the political right trying to cling to power in the face of demographic changes, but your example is a factually incorrect statement about Trudeau (no, he didn't declare martial law). A bunch of mostly American agitators caused an astroturf truck blockade of a major city that drags on. Eventually he empowered the police to begin arresting people and towing trucks. What was he supposed to do?
If you want a usable protest example, look at the way Republican states are working on laws to legalize running over protestors (at least Black and Native American ones). By American standards, the Canadian authorities have been far too polite in dealing with the truckers. But they are Canadians, eh?
Are you sure Ukraine war reports are hoaxes? Putin has already invaded twice and successfully annexed part of the country once. I'd say any threat should at least be taken seriously. Unless you’re a Putin apologist, which I see way more of than is healthy. Dude is fucking evil.
The media has always been sensationalistic. In modern times it was at least manageable…until Rupert Murdoch. Yes, it's bad, but again, it's the rightwing media ecosphere that is the driver. If that would go away the whole situation would settle quite a lot.
The tech obsession I don't get. They singlehandedly elected Trump and still run flagrant falsehoods with nothing but a warning label. Trying to partially limit bullshit is not squelching dissent.
As for election rights, the problem is some people are trying to take them away, and those people are - ta da! - mostly Republicans. Let's join in stopping that.
As for the Bill of Rights, none of them were ever intended to be absolute. Heller means the 2nd Amendment has never been more powerful, and whatever perceived threats there may be haven't actually done anything. We lead the developed world in guns and we’re the only country in the developed world with severe gun violence. Situation normal. But I'm with Scalia, some limits are appropriate and required.
Claimed threats to "free speech" are usually overblown, but there are issues. And yes, the left has become part of what has been for centuries a near-unique problem for the right. Now both sides are trying to ban things and silence people. Nothing existentially dangerous at the moment, though. Still mostly overblown, but definitely should keep an eye on it.
As far as I can tell, the core problem is the right feels threatened and is lashing out in dangerous ways. Straight White Christian men think they are God’s Plan for ruling the country and seeing the population become less of all those things has them scared. So they’re trying to shortcut democracy to keep power by whatever means necessary. If they’d stop, it would take a lot of the pressure off.
It’s one reason I vote Democratic - they’re disorganized, inefficient and could never get their act together enough to actually break the system the way the GOP is trying to do.
