New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Sunday demanded an apology from Joe Biden after the president criticized a wing of the Republican Party for embracing authoritarianism.

The fact that the president would go out and just insult half of America [and] effectively call half of America semi-fascist, Sununu said on CNN s State of the Union. Hes trying to stir up controversy. Hes trying to stir up this anti-Republican sentiment right before the election. Its horribly inappropriate.

They double down on division. They use fear. They call Republicans names, and I think the American people are really sick of it right now, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said Monday during an interview on Fox News in response to Bidens comments.

Republicans arent above name-calling and fear-mongering, either. GOP politicians often use labels like socialists and communists as catch-alls for members of the Democratic Party and their policies.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) recently said the country is controlled by Marxist crazies and laptop liberals , while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) seemed to welcome the contrast drawn by Biden.

The communists have always called their enemies fascists, Cruz tweeted .

Sununu on Sunday conceded there are elements of fascism and white supremacy in the U.S., but he argued that Bidens comments did nothing but add to the polarization.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, another moderate Republican governor, similarly acknowledged in a Sunday interview on CBS that a strain of authoritarianism exists within the GOP.

Ive been talking about the toxic politics and if Republicans are calling Democrats socialists and communists and we have the president of the United States calling Republicans fascist, I dont think it adds to the overall discussion, Hogan added on Face the Nation.

But defeated Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) didnt hold back, warning last week that the Constitution is hanging by a thread in the face of Trump and his supporters efforts to overturn elections.

The thought that if you dont do what we like, then we will just get rid of you and march on and do it ourselves that to me is fascism, Bowers, a devout Republican who supported Trumps 2016 presidential campaign, told The Guardian last week .

The funny thing is, I always thought it would be the other guys. And its my side. That just rips at my heart: that we would be the people who would surrender the Constitution in order to win an election. That just blows my mind, he added.

Bowers lost his Republican primary race for a state Senate seat early this month after he refused to try to toss out Arizonas votes for Biden in an effort to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election.