Rest assured, there are already plans in place to turn this country into Argentina under Galtieri, if not Chile under Pinochet. The New York Times has produced a truly scarifying piece of reporting that leaves no doubt what's at stake in courtrooms right now, and at the polling stations all over the country in 2024. It is no exaggeration to say that what's on the line is not only the American democratic experiment, but also the basic idea of self-government itself.

He inflicted great harm on the DOJ and the FBI during his disastrous term of office, and he promises to do much worse if reelected: "He is now unabashedly saying he will throw that effort into overdrive if he returns to power." He claims that Trump "simply took existing conservative policy prescriptions and applied them crudely and stupidly because he is, well, crude and stupid."

Pierce says: 

The most powerful conservative think tanks are working on plans that would go far beyond “reforming” the F.B.I., even though its Senate-confirmed directors in the modern era have all been Republicans. They want to rip it up and start again.“The F.B.I. has become a political weapon for the ruling elite rather than an impartial, law-enforcement agency,” said Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, a mainstay of the conservative movement since the Reagan years. He added, “Small-ball reforms that increase accountability within the F.B.I. fail to meet the moment. The F.B.I. must be rebuilt from the ground up — reforming it in its current state is impossible.”

“The F.B.I. has become a political weapon for the ruling elite rather than an impartial, law-enforcement agency"? Utter nonsense; in fact, the opposite of the truth. The FBI is (basically) an impartial law-enforcement agency, and Roberts, the Heritage Foundation, and the rest of the Republican cabal are determined to make it into "a political weapon for the ruling elite" -- namely, them.