Almost every other single source of news is entirely controlled by the left

You know, there isn't much mainstream media left after radio and TV. Furthermore, you don't seem to realize that there is a difference between liberals and "the left." The average leftist on the street has little to do with Hollywood.

I wouldn't call the will of the people being realized "authoritarianism".

Tyranny of the majority? Ever heard that phrase?

Anyway, I am talking about the attitude that you and other conservatives have shown -- that, even when you control the levers of power, you still act as if you are the victims here. Authoritarians always need someone they can characterize as the enemy as showed by the crazy NRA video.

In theory but not in practice.

It's practice and not just theory. How do you think we've heard about all of the biggest scandals in modern history?

The media, with the exception of the conservative sources of news that we have already discussed, did absolutely no watchdogging actual journalism on the Obama administration

Those conservative media sources did nothing but push hysterical conspiracy theories while overlooking REAL watchdog journalism. If you knew anything about journalists (and there are thousands of them on the beat every day) then you would know that they love a good story regardless of the politics involved.

From small town halls to Capitol Hill, journalists cover all the various levels of American governance, and they should be commended for their efforts instead of continually being characterized (or attacked) as the enemy by conservatives.

BTW, attacking the press is one of the sort of things that authoritarians do as well.

(Fast and Furious, the IRS being weaponized against conservatives, Benghazi, etc).

Fast and Furious began under Bush, but conservative media didn't cover that. The IRS has been "weaponized" more against liberals than conservatives, often with the support of Republicans, but I am sure Fox News didn't report that, either. Benghazi turned out be nothing despite years of investigations by Republicans and conservative media.

They should not, however, lie about honest police officers in order to paint them as being evil despite having done nothing wrong as happens all the time.

I don't see that happening at all. Do you realize how often police shoot or beat people without anything happening at all to them?

They often do have perfectly good justification, but you wouldn't know that if all you watched was CNN and MSNBC.

CNN and MSNBC cover shootings or beatings that happen under questionable circimstances, but you wouldn't know this, would you? These things happen on a regular basis.

They are not suppose to lie and be and unoffical branch of a political party as they are now.

Oh, the irony, as conservaive media such as Fox News acts like de facto state media for Trump.

The problem is that you see ANY criticism of Republicans and Trump as representing the Democrats, as if there isn't outside the two party system.

As I said before, some conservatives won't be happy until they control all aspects of society, including the media, squalshing any and all dissent to their political agenda.