The Plot Against America

Introduction Robert L. Borosage The New New Right Kim Phillips-Fein The Executive Chris Lehmann Justice Elie Mystal Democracy John Nichols Housing Sasha Abramsky Healthcare Joan Walsh Climate Change Bill McKibben Immigration Gaby Del Valle China Jake Werner The Pentagon William Hartung HOW FAR MIGHT DONALD TRUMP GO, IF GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE? THE estimates range from dictatorship to a rerun of his first term, when indolence, ignorance, and incompetence mitigated his menace. But this time promises to be different—and far worse. Trump’s tempestuous stump performances, which meld vaudeville with venom, provide a clue. He has repeatedly promised to round up and deport millions of immigrants, pardon the January 6 offenders, prosecute his persecutors, impose tariffs on all imports—perhaps higher than 60 percent on goods from China—and “Drill, baby, drill!” What’s different this time, as this special issue details, is that there is now an organized effort to transform Trump’s resentments and impulses into policy.…