Authoritarian lockdowns were not necessary to save thousands. Using the live Coronavirus YouTube feed let's compare ourselves to Canada. Numbers rounded a bit.
United States - 229k deaths, 700 per million population
Canada - 10k deaths, 260 per million population
Canada is not a SE Asian authoritarian regime that mandated a total draconian lockdown. What they did have was a leader who did not fight against medical authorities in his country at every step of the way, fuel conspiracy theories, pressure local leaders to reopen prematurely, host super spreader events and push quack "cures", some of which directly lead to deaths that won't even be accounted for in the COVID-19 fatalities (i.e. death by bleach or Hydroxychloroquine).
Canada is not THAT different than the US. If we could have just approached this as well as they have we'd have perhaps 120,000+ Americans who are not dead right now. That delta, I feel, can be laid on the shoulders of one person in particular. That alone makes him unworthy of the office he holds.