Welcome to Democracy-ish.

And I'm Danielle Moody.

And I'm Gha Thuette.

And we are so happy to be joined by the author of,

let me tell you something, a book that is right on time,

Stephen Fish, who is a comparative political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley,

and the book is Comeback, Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the nation, and restoring democracy's edge.

And Wash, I will turn it over to you for your movie phone introduction.

Professor Stephen Fish specializes in democracy and authoritarianism, religion and politics,

and constitutional systems, and national legislatures.

He is the author of multiple books and also the recipient of the Distinguished Social Sciences

Teaching Award of the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley, my alma mater.

Thank you, Stephen, for tolerating that immaturity. But as I was telling you before, this is a very

biased show, and I'm always biased towards people from the Bay Area and my alma mater of UC Berkeley.

So it gives me great joy that you are the author of this book. And before we ask the first question,

you like me are a proud husband. You have married way up.

And so I want you to get husband equity. And I was looking on the cover of this book that it

wasn't just M. Stephen Fish. It's with someone. So let's give a shout out to who you wrote this book

with. Well, I wrote this book with my wonderful wife.

She's kind of the brains behind the operation.

And there's a backstory in this watch on the night that Trump was elected.

As I recall, it was the night of the 8th, November of 2016.

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