What now? Brace yourself.

At the end of October in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump laid out what his campaign called a “100-day plan to Make America Great Again.”

The plan (pdf) came on top of multiple promises Trump made on the campaign trail about what he would do on his “first day in office.” Taken together, these vows represent a right-wing agenda that includes:

  • removing “more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country;”
  • canceling “every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum, and order issued by President Obama;”
  • suspending immigration “from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur;”
  • repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act;
  • allowing the Keystone XL pipeline to move forward;
  • lifting restrictions on fossil fuel production;
  • selecting a Supreme Court nominee in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia;
  • canceling “billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs;”
  • establishing “a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated;” and
  • ending federal funding for sanctuary cities.

“This is life in the early days of a Trump presidency: economic shock, international instability, and constitutional crisis as Trump makes the presidency his plaything,” Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wrote last week.

Some of Trump’s plans, including the infamous border wall with Mexico, may hit some roadblocks. But with the GOP retaining control of both the House and the Senate—and Trump’s potential cabinet picks comprised of conservative darlings from Rudy Giuliani to Sarah Palin—the path for implementation for many of these agenda items is clear.

As John Nichols wrote on Wednesday for The Nation:

Ryan himself said Wednesday in the wake of Trump’s win: “Now…we will lead a unified Republican government,” and talked of working together toward Republican priorities.

“The opportunity is now here, and the opportunity is to go big and go bold,” Ryan said. 

In fact, those establishment allies have been laying this groundwork for years, said Charles Pierce in Esquire on Wednesday.

“Somebody finally climbed aboard the vehicle that the Republican Party had spent long years constructing, but that it somehow never built up the nerve to take out for a real shakedown,” Pierce wrote. “Turns out, it was more powerful than even they could have imagined it to be, and now we’re all along for the ride, god help us.”

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