Well, I think the primary threat is really to the rule of law, that he's been very clear in the last few months and weeks that he's really out for revenge.

He wants to take revenge on all the people that he believes have been prosecuting him or persecuting him.

And I think that this is where schedule F really matters because he couldn't get his own Justice Department you know to

go after Hillary Clinton even though he wanted them to but you know he

understands that that was a weakness of his first term and I think he's going to

put people

in key positions in the Justice Department that will enable them to open up investigations.

And now the Good Fight with Yasha Monk.

My guest today is Francis Fukuyama.

Frank is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogley Institute at Stanford University.

He is the under-end editor of American Purpose, which is now hosted on the Persuasion platform.

And he is, of course, one of the most important and influential political scientist and public intellectuals of our time.

Frank and I tried together to process Donald Trump's rather convincing electoral victory, trying to think about what caused Trump

to overperform and Democrats to underperform, trying to make sense of the extent to which

Trump will threaten democratic institutions, thinking through the impact that his presidency will have on international

relations and especially on democracies around the world, and discussing what it is that

opponents of Donald Trump can do now, what it is that they can do better than we did in 2016,

because it's quite clear

that we have in important ways failed.

In today's bonus material, we discuss how some of the interpretations that political scientists

have of the 2016 elections have turned out to be wrong.

We discuss how Democrats insistence on an

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