Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump made two Truth Social posts that offer our best insights yet into what a second Trump administration will look like.

In one, Trump announced his intent to appoint Thomas Homan to the expansive role of “border czar” — a position that, naturally, would report exclusively to the president. In another, Trump conditioned his endorsement of the next Senate majority leader on Republicans allowing him vast leeway to bypass Congress in filling senior government positions.

Both ideas would represent expansions of presidential power, and both come directly from the Project 2025 playbook that Trump unconvincingly disavowed during the campaign. In less than a week, Trump has succeeded in realigning the Republican Party with the extreme Project 2025 vision of an authoritarian executive. Now the future president would like official approval to go on a loyalist hiring spree.

Homan’s new gig is a great example of just how cozy Trump has always been with the sweeping goals of Project 2025. The position now includes, among other responsibilities, overseeing “all deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin.” Homan has........

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