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Opinion: Trump has a second-term agenda, and it’s more terrifying than ever

Photo/Doug Mills/The New York Times / Former President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, delivers remarks at the Sportsman Boats manufacturing facility in Summerville, S.C., on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.
Photo/Doug Mills/The New York Times / Former President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, delivers remarks at the Sportsman Boats manufacturing facility in Summerville, S.C., on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Photo/Doug Mills/The New York Times / Former President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, delivers remarks at the Sportsman Boats manufacturing facility in Summerville, S.C., on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.

Former President Donald Trump is on the campaign trail again, and most of the attention he’s getting is for bare-knuckled attacks on his chief opponents as well as the prosecutors who have indicted him.

Amid the insults, Trump has laid out a menu of actions he plans to take if he becomes president again. Anyone who isn’t a true believer in Trump’s authoritarian vision should be terrified.

In speeches, interviews and campaign videos, Trump has promised to:

› Use the military to participate in the largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in American history;

› Order the National Guard into cities with high crime rates, whether local officials want it or not;