If he wins...

It's a scary thing to read the New York Times report on what Trump's plans are if he wins the election.  If he is your candidate, are these the things you want to happen:

Immigrataion

* a second Trump administration would seek a tenfold increase in the volume of deportations — to more than a million per year.

* He plans to reassign federal agents and the National Guard to immigration control. He would also enable the use of federal troops to apprehend migrants.

* The Trump team plans to use military funds to build “vast holding facilities” to detain immigrants while their deportation cases progress.

* He plans to suspend the nation’s refugee program and once again bar visitors from mostly Muslim countries, reinstating a version of the travel ban that President Biden revoked in 2021.

* His administration would declare that children born to undocumented parents were not entitled to citizenship and would cease issuing documents like Social Security cards and passports to them.

The Justice Department

* As president, Mr. Trump pressed the Justice Department to investigate his foes. If re-elected, he has vowed to appoint a special prosecutor “to go after” Mr. Biden and his family.

* He has cited the precedent of his own indictments to declare that if he became president again and someone challenged him politically, he could say, “Go down and indict them.”

* a Trump confidant, has threatened to target journalists for prosecution if Mr. Trump returns to power. 

Presidential Power

* Congress has set up various regulatory agencies to operate independently from the White House. Mr. Trump has vowed to bring them under presidential control, setting up a potential court fight.

* He has vowed to return to a system under which the president has the power to refuse to spend money that Congress has appropriated for programs the president doesn’t like.

* During Mr. Trump’s presidency, he issued an executive order making it easier to fire career officials and replace them with loyalists. Mr. Biden rescinded it, but Mr. Trump has said that he would reissue it in a second term.

* Mr. Trump has disparaged the career work force at agencies involved in national security and foreign policy as an evil “deep state” he intends to destroy.

* Politically appointed lawyers in the first Trump administration sometimes raised objections to White House proposals. Several of his closest advisers are now vetting lawyers seen as more likely to embrace aggressive legal theories about the scope of his power.

Economic Policies

* Politically appointed lawyers in the first Trump administration sometimes raised objections to

White House proposals. Several of his closest advisers are now vetting lawyers seen as more

likely to embrace aggressive legal theories about the scope of his power.

* He has said that he will “phase out all Chinese imports” of electronics and other essential goods, and impose new rules to stop U.S. companies from making investments in China. The two countries are the largest economies in the world and exchange hundreds of billions of dollars of goods each year.

* He has said that he will “phase out all Chinese imports” of electronics and other essential goods,

and impose new rules to stop U.S. companies from making investments in China. The two

countries are the largest economies in the world and exchange hundreds of billions of dollars of

goods each year.

* Mr. Trump has said he would extend the tax cuts from his 2017 tax law that are set to expire, including for all levels of personal income and for large estates. He also privately told business leaders he wants to further lower the corporate tax rate.

* Potentially undercut NATO or withdraw the United States from the alliance

* He has claimed that he would end the war in Ukraine in a day. He has not said how, but he has suggested that he would have made a deal to prevent the war by letting Russia simply take Ukrainian lands.

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