More like 2000 years of totalitarian.

If you mix up monarchy, empire, dictatorship, etc. all in the same bucket and call everything 'totalitarian', our ability to think about politics gets rather reduced.

It's even anachronistic, the concept itself is recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism

Yes, yes it has. I'll never understand why people are perpetually surprised when China bans X, or rounds up people for doing Y.