John Avlon: It's quite possible that all of what Trump did to corrupt and destabilize our institutions was legal. He says we rely on norms in so many ways, and in some ways even more than laws. There don't appear to be laws to defend our democracy against this sort of thing, he says.Avlon: But when I say that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy, I don't mean that he is orange Hitler.

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