Thesis: The executive branch is becoming too powerful.
Antithesis: If that ever happened, the white-collar desk jockeys at the IRS would rise in revolt against authoritarianism.
Synthesis: Democracies cannot be authoritarian as long as they pass the 
test.
I find it interesting how western academics will justifiably point out similarities between political movements and religions without ever considering that maybe religions were essentially how politics were done in the past