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A Warning

America survived the first Trump term, though not without sustaining serious damage. A second term, if there is one, will be much worse.
Stopping the attack on democracy
Source: Ashley Gilbertson / VII / Redux

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “If Trump Wins,” a project considering what Donald Trump might do if reelected in 2024.

L, I’ve been operating in Casaubon mode for much of the past eight years, searching for the key to Donald Trump’s mythologies. No single explanation of Trump is fully satisfactory, although staff writer Adam Serwer came closest when he observed that . Another person who helped me unscramble the mystery of Trump was his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Early in

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