“The president’s plan should be to fundamentally reorient the federal government in a way that hasn’t been done since FDR’s New Deal,” John McEntee, a former Trump administration employee who attempted to purge insufficiently loyal officials in 2020 and is now overseeing the approach for a Trump administration sequel, told the Times. Thinking these alleged plans are simply fake news made up by the “ failing New York Times” in an attempt to stop Trump from being president? They are not! And we know this because some of them, like the impounding business, are literally on Trump’s campaign website, and others are being talked about, on the record, by his advisers.

(The Federal Communications Commission, for instance, which currently operates as an independent agency, would be directly controlled by Trump in a potential second term.) As previously reported in a report that should have scared the crap out of you, the former guy also intends to make it far easier to fire potentially thousands of career civil servants and replace them with die-hard MAGA loyalists, but in addition, according to the Times, he plans to “scour the intelligence agencies, the State Department and the defense bureaucracies to remove officials he has vilified as ‘the sick political class that hates our country.’” And, should voters lose their minds come 2024 and send him back to the White House, he’ll revive the practice banned under Richard Nixon of “impounding” funds appropriated by Congress for programs he doesn’t support. The New York Times reports that “Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government…reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.” That expansion, per the Times, involves “increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House,” according to people familiar with the matter. But it‘s also not hard to imagine because Trump and his allies fully and proudly admit that should he beat Joe Biden in 2024 and head back to the Oval Office on January 20, 2025, he’ll run the place like a true authoritarian from day one.

Obviously, that’s because those final weeks involved a desperate, unprecedented attempt to steal a federal election, capped off by an actual insurrection that left multiple people dead. Given how his final weeks in office went down the first time around, it’s not hard to imagine that a potential second term for Donald Trump would be a full-on horror show.

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