[newaccountman2]

> The first authoritarian regime that might come to mind to most after the French Revolution, the Nazis,

?? you think no government between the French Revolution government and the Nazis could qualify as "authoritarian"?

[stevenwoo]

No, I tried to express with the word “might” and the phrase “come to mind” as indications of what people could come up with on the spur of the moment without delving into research. I did not intend what you wrote.