'No honeymoon': Former Republican calls for immediate organizing to thwart Trump

Former Republican Bill Kristol believes that now is the time for foes of President-elect Donald Trump to start organizing to thwart any efforts to dismantle democratic institutions.

Writing in The Bulwark, Kristol argued that Trump and his movement should have "no honeymoon" and that Democrats need to begin working immediately rather than waiting until he's inaugurated next year.

"If Trump as president-elect sails through these next two months unimpeded and unmarked, he’ll take office in a position of great strength," he wrote.

"If, on the other hand, there’s effective opposition to his worst appointees, if real obstacles can be put in place ahead of time to his worst policies, if real efforts are organized to protect individuals the Trumpists intend to go after, Trump could start off with much less ability to do damage than one might expect."

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Kristol acknowledged that Trump and his allies' control of the federal government will be a formidable challenge, but he said that "this is a big and diverse country, and it’s a big and complicated government, and there are laws and institutions in place that can’t be steamrolled as easily as they were in Hungary or Venezuela."

Although Kristol does not outline specific steps he would take to throw roadblocks up against Trump, he does believe there are things that can be done to "make things less bad for Ukraine, less bad for immigrants, less bad for civil servants, less bad for domestic dissidents, less bad for our future."