Will democracy survive another Trump win?

Donald Trump is promising to do things in a second term that he didn't get close to achieving in his first term.

Steve Levitsky , a Harvard professor and author of How Democracies Die with co-author Daniel Ziblatt , says it's an authoritarian agenda much bolder and much more authoritarian than what he accomplished in first term, when low points included a ban on people from certain Muslim countries from entering the US , family separation at the border with children held for weeks in cells.

Trump will be able to launch investigations and even prosecutions, often for petty infractions against all kinds of people, hundreds and even thousands of people.

He’s control over the courts won’t be sufficient for him to jail his rivals, but you can do a hell of a lot of damage investigating and trying and attempting to prosecute people.

Trump has said he wants to send the military into Democratic cities, but the military itself will find itself divided.

The best case scenario for a second Trump presidency is that we muddle through, but that he doesn't have the energy or ambition to fight too many fights.

The private sector and our civil society is big, diverse, and wealthy enough that you’re going to see a pretty healthy opposition.

To see how influential university presidents, Catholic leaders and business people remain on the sidelines is worrisome.