Last week, on Monday, January 20, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. Eight years ago, on January 20, 2017, Trump was inaugurated as America’s 45th president but was denied a second term in the 2020 presidential election. His remarkable comeback, after a four-year interregnum, makes him the second US president, since Grover Cleveland in 1892, to return to office for a non-consecutive term after being defeated for re-election; he is the first in 130 years! But Trump’s return to power is menacing. At home, he promised carpet-bombing change; abroad, he vowed aggressive expansionism.