It is important to realize that, as we move towards autocracy, the autocrat will (as always) have many supporters and sycophants.
What we are living through is fundamental transformation.
It is clear that if... or when... we become an official marxist state, there will be a seamless transit thru the last stages that the dem’rats in power will transcend. None of them will bat an eyelash; they’ll simply keep doing what they’ve been doing for years... except the umbrella under which they work will be a totalitarian dictatorship.