This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and

around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York. On today's show

We won by historic numbers, one Pennsylvania by a lot. A president dishonestly denying

he lost the election. And one by the way, we can find that out.

And in doing so, cracking the foundations of so many of democracy's most important norms

and institutions. Is there any precedent for these unprecedented lands?

Almost 74 million votes. I have a great panel of historians to discuss that. And the legacy

of Trump's term in office. And an eye-opening discovery that may save your life one day.

A way to edit the genetic code itself. Newly minted Nobel laureate Jennifer Daugner tells

me about the promise of CRISPR. But first, here's my take. More than 150 million Americans

made their own personal decisions when they voted in this year's election. But it is now

the uninvulable job of commentators to explain the meaning of those choices. At the broadest

level, it's fair to say that the vote was a repudiation of Donald Trump.

President rarely lose their bits for reelection, only five have in the last 125 years. And

Trump has won as few electoral votes as his nemesis Hillary Clinton did last time. And he

lost the popular vote by a larger margin than when Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford in

the wake of Watergate. And yet it's obvious that the country remains deeply divided. After

an impeachment, a pandemic and the worst economic paralysis since the Great Depression, Republicans

overwhelmingly voted for their party. And Democrats did the same. Polarization is now deep,

tribal and existential, largely unaffected by events or job performance. In fact, as

when things get bad in sports, it seems to have become a greater test of loyalty to stay

with your team. Democrats are more disappointed because they had hoped that this election

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