It's really easy to take a both-sides stance here, but the last presidency (ending in that same president causing an insurrection attempt at our capital) shows that one side is clearly more dedicated to authoritarianism than the other - socially, politically, and legally.
People really seem to be hung up on equivocating a sitting president attempting to overturn an election with people on twitter saying mean things.
TBF the Obama administration set some nasty precedents internally (whistleblower prosecutions under espionage act) and externally (assassinations), plus plenty of similar precedents set by previous administrations both D and R
I don't consider my framing to be a "both-sides" false equivalency — I simply did omitted labels, because I felt that was rhetorically stronger. The framing is entirely compatible with the possibility that one side exhibits much more severe authoritarian tendencies than the other.
People really seem to be hung up on equivocating a sitting president attempting to overturn an election with people on twitter saying mean things.