I think there is a tacit understanding among the right that we're taking advantage of authoritarian/statist tactics while we can. Progressives are completely blind as to why nationalizing an entire industry under a central government could possibly be considered authoritarian, as long as they're the ones doing it, because they're judging the government not by the sum amount of authority it possesses, but by how it spends that authority. For them authoritarianism isn't an inherent fact of statism. Authoritarianism to them means the oppression of the capitalist class, lurking within the free market, and requiring a powerful state to serve as a check to rectify the injustices of ostensibly meritocratic non-interventionist policies.