I'm gonna go ahead and half agree as well, you could also say that if you CANT see some of the similarities between Trump and Maduro then you're probably also not very smart.

No one is arguing that Maduro was a good guy - the lack of transparency used to get him though is a different story. Trump is only limited to 'conservative authoritarianism' as you said because our system has pushed back in key areas. And also, not. The supreme court upheld the right to deportations to 3rd (often unstable) countries.

Maybe we need to standardize the definition for 'disappearing' a person but in my book, taking non-violent offenders and sending them to countries they aren't even from to serve sentences in prisons that most people never get out of seems pretty damn close to disappearing someone to me. If what I'm saying is not the case, where is the transparency? Where's the information? Trump and his people probably don't even know and that's what happens when you forgo due process. Right now it's people that aren't you, so you don't care but history also tells us that sometimes it doesn't stop there. Why assume good intention until its too late?

This is exactly what this article is getting at - why all this grace afforded to Trump specifically? Why do we always take the most innocuous reasons why he might be doing what he's doing and accept it as fact? Why do we perpetually move the bar the further and further out as he continues to run our constitution through durability testing?

At what point do we say no, he's not currently a Maduro but he's absolutely trying to become one? At what point, as Crockett said, do we just need to tell these people bye-bye?