How to Prepare for a Second Trump Term

If our worst fears end up being realized, it will take a superhuman effort to keep our democracy alive. Here’s how it can be done.

This article, co-written with Lincoln Mitchell, appears in The New Republic

The 2024 election may be anyone’s game, but the lineup itself is set. On November 5, voters will once again get to choose between Donald Trump and Joe Biden—and the prospect of a second Trump presidency looms. The former president hasn’t left what his return to the White House will mean up to the imagination: Trump has explicitly pledged to further undermine American democracy if elected, and his far-right allies are actively building the political machinery to do it.

Every four years we are told that “this election is the most important of our lifetimes.” Finally, it’s not just idle talk. A second Trump term could spell the end of the United States as we know it—but it doesn’t have to. Though the election is still many months away, and we cannot yet know who will win, we need to begin preparing for the possibility of a Trump victory now, just in case.

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