He is certainly an authoritarian and unapologetically forces his peculiar Christian beliefs on people who ought to be free to believe whatever they like.

I'd be careful about the slavery analogy, though, lest we trivialize the horrors of chattel slavery in the United States, and particularly in Tennessee. I mean, I know what you mean, and I agree with you, but I also have lots of Black friends who really get mad when we call things slavery that aren't actually slavery.