Anarchists and libertarians throw the word "statist" around so much that event the Founding Fathers are "statists."
We are going to have a government of some sort whatever happens, so to anarchists and many libertarians, we are all "statists."
My idea of statist is someone in favor of powerful centralized government and supports its arrival. Since both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for our transitioning from a republic to a nation-state, basing our political views on the difference between two parties which are heading the same way isn’t much of a choice.
The authoritarian - freedom spectrum puts these ideas in tension much more usefully than left and right.