What Tyranny Really Is

What is tyranny?

Total extra-constitutional power of the president to suspend habeas corpus, detain anyone in the US without charges, and torture them including be hung from the ceiling naked, sleep deprived, water-boarded.

or

Taxation in a representative democracy with a top tax rate in line with the Clinton era.

Is your partisanship so deep it erodes any moral faculties or critical reasoning? Eight years of Bush/Cheney Torture™ later, after a single stimulus package and three months of Obama, Fox News is predicting fascism.