From a Jack Shafer Fourth Estate column on politico.com headlined “Trump’s Recipe for a Shockingly Raw Power Grab”:
You can’t say Donald Trump didn’t warn us.
Trump and his think tank loyalists are collecting the ingredients and refining the recipe for an authoritarian regime should he win the 2024 presidential election. According to a page one story in The Washington Post Monday, Trump plans on the first day of his new administration to invoke the Insurrection Act so he can dispatch the military to counter any demonstrations that might resist his policies.