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Wallace with each passing day that the disregard, disgraced twice impeached four times

indicted ex-president moves ever closer to winning the Republican nomination.

The vision of a second Trump administration is becoming clearer.

Take a look at these headlines, the Atlantic, devoting an entire issue to the subject of a second Trump term with the words,

if Trump wins.

From the New York Times, why a second Trump presidency may be more radical than the first?

And this, from the Guardian, a second Trump term will be far more autocratic than the first.

He's telling us.

Just a few days ago, an op-ed in the Washington Post read a Trump dictatorship is increasingly

inevitable we should stop pretending.

The throughline through all of this chilling reporting is a warning.

Donald Trump could transform every institution that comes under the sway of the presidency from the Justice Department to the

federal bureaucracy that makes every government agency tick to the

alliances that underpin our foreign policy and don't assume that Trump will fall

short of his goals like he did so often in his first term,

a second term Trump would be different.

As David Frum writes in the Atlantic, quote, in his first term, Trump's corruption and brutality were mitigated

by his ignorance and his laziness.

In a second Trump term, he would arrive with a much better understanding of the system's vulnerabilities, more willing

enablers in tow and much more focused agenda of retaliation against his

adversaries and impunity for himself. When people wonder what another Trump term might hold,

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