In a bold new essay, Thom Hartmann defines the goal of Trump and the MAGA movement's revolutionary project: "Trump is hell-bent-for-leather to turn America into a tin pot dictatorship as fast as he can, establishing the same sort of single-party state his mentors, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbn, run in Russia and Hungary." In a roundtable discussion for the New York Times, David French issues a similar warning: "You can paint a picture where the combination of Trump's obstinance, the total unyielding loyalty of MAGA, plus the abuse of the pardon power " which he's established as of right now as having no real limits in his mind " create a situation of absolutely sustained and profound lawlessness."