New York Times superstar Maggie Haberman has been covering Donald Trump since day one. Longer than that, even, if you count the fact that five minutes of Trump feels like five years of anyone else.

But being as she’s had the opportunity to break down and evaluate the things that Trump has said he has planned for his future in power, it stands to reason that we should listen to her.

We all know that his use of the term “deep state” is meant to trigger his followers’ conspiracy theorist tendencies, and that when he describes his detractors as “vermin,” he’s using the same terminology that Hitler used to describe the Jews. His statements largely add up to a very serious threat to democracy itself.

Republicans, however, have tried to minimize these statements.

Maggie has been watching. So when Kaitlan Collins asked Haberman on the latest episode of The Source on CNN what Trump’s plans looked like, Maggie was quick on the draw. After noting that he’d said he was going to appoint a “real” special prosecutor (someone who would start from his suggestions and work forward), she went further:

He has a policy staff that is working on a very, very radical immigration plan. It’s not that dissimilar from what Trump was talking about in 2016. He has outside groups that are working on efforts to try to not just staff a second administration, but help him gut the civil service and to try to take greater control over pockets of authority– of independence within the government.

So, this is all from his own mouth and/or from his close allies or his advisers.

And this is what would happen next time. And he’d be walking into a presidency with a weakened Congress, with the people who have been the most opposed to him in his own party, such as Liz Cheney, not in her seat anymore, Mitt Romney leaving, going down the list. There were not many of them, and they are basically gone because he has bent the party to his will and he has a supermajority of conservatives on the Supreme Court, which could change things. as well.

It’s well beyond time that we begin listening to Maggie Haberman and her colleagues.