Hi there, everyone. It's Vorkarkin, New York, a sweeping new piece of reporting in the

New York Times that reveals that this time around, Maga might very well stand for making

autocrats great again. The disgraced ex-presidents plans for a second-term in office are pages

straight out of an autocrats playbook, moves that would amount to nothing short of a wrecking

ball to American democracy and consisting of the very same things that have not just landed

him under criminal scrutiny and investigation by the Justice Department, but that have already

led to federal indictment. The New York Times reports that team Trump plans to get rid

of any and all roadblocks to interference by the White House in any independent government

agency. From that new reporting quote, Donald Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping

expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government. If voters return him to

the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater

authority directly in his hands. Trump and his associates have a broader goal to alter the balance

of power by increasing the president's authority over every part of the federal government that

now operates either by law or tradition with any measure of independence from political

interference by the White House. That is according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and

interviews with people close to him. The ex-presidents' allies are trying to ensure that the next

time Trump needs to get the Justice Department or the Department of Homeland Security or any

agency really to go along with his political vendettas, there will be no one and nothing standing

in his way. Once again, from this new New York Times reporting quote, he intends to strip employment

protections from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if

they are deemed obstacles to his agenda. And he plans to scour the intelligence agencies, the

State Department, and the defense bureaucracies to remove officials he has vilified as quote, the sick

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