With the help of NY Times reporting, we laid out the stakes in the 2024 election. Now that “The Former Guy” is also The New Guy, we’ll be tracking his moves to consolidate power and broaden the reach of the Executive Branch, and tracking how Republican governance degrades our personal liberty, finances, access to healthcare, and more.

Whatever you might think of the New York Times, their analysis of what was at stake in this election is dead on. No election has ever been more consequential in determining the path of our country in the years and decades ahead.

Specifically, we will be watching for Republicans to follow through on these promises:

  • The Department of Justice will answer to Donald Trump and prosecute his enemies.
  • At Trump’s whim, the military will be deployed against US citizens protesting his and Republicans’ actions.
  • Formerly nonpartisan agencies will be restaffed with those willing to bend to Trump’s whims, ending the use of facts and science to formulate policy in matters of climate, health and economics.
  • Tax cuts for the wealthy will cripple the federal government’s ability to meet its financial obligations, placing community safety, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid at risk.
  • Tariffs on imported goods will fuel inflation and wealth inequality.
  • Fed chair Jay Powell will be forced out and the Fed will lose its independence.
  • The number of women without access to abortion and life-saving reproductive care will continue to rise, as will unnecessary deaths of women denied such care.
  • The Affordable Care Act will be dismantled, denying millions access to life-saving medical care.
  • Millions of immigrants—including hard-working and law-abiding residents, and those brought here as children—will be rounded up and deported, creating needless suffering and denying employers the workers they desperately need.
  • Trump will weaken NATO and our ties to allies. He will hand Putin a large chunk of Ukraine, if not the whole country, in return for peace. Ukraine will have none of it and fight on its own, with potentially disastrous consequences for them and for the free world.
  • Extremists will continue to undermine free and fair elections and the rule of law.

An openly partisan Supreme Court has already paved the way for an imperial Executive, and Trump will get the compliant generals and advisors he lacked in his first term. The threat issued by Kevin Roberts that the “second American Revolution” will “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” is real. We have a republic, if we can keep it.