How It Could Happen Here

These are the likely centerpoints of a second Trump term. None of these are speculative — all of them are plans that Trump and/or his supporters have openly discussed. And most of them stem directly from the authoritarian faction’s experience straining against our democracy’s guardrails the last time around.

— “How It Could Happen Here,” ifyoucankeepit.com
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