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Nah this isn't authoritarian or Tankie at all. It is a valid point that economically left-wing policy was very successful in the past (and it's just a meme anyway, it's tongue in cheek).
Now there's a lot of discussion we can have about why left-wing economics aren't as popular among Americans anymore -- I don't think FDR's policies could win an election today necessarily. But I think they can in the future. Reagan made us a deeply conservative nation and we're only just coming out of that now.
You're right, we should abolish term limits to make a forever leader whose opposition gets disappeared, and we should start apprehending and sentencing to death any wealthy who disagree with that leader. Trump seems to claim he's the opponent of corruption and big money, right? He can be our leftwing supreme leader. /sarcasm
Can you point to where anyone said we should "abolish term limits to make a forever leader whose opposition is disappeared?" If you can't, this is what's called a straw man argument.
The meme states that they "had to enact term limits" to stop leftists. The leftist in question had the FBI and IRS investigate his opponents.
So you can't point to where anyone said we should "abolish term limits to make a forever leader whose opposition is disappeared." This is what's called a straw man argument. You're arguing against a straw man.