Look what came true and what didn’t. The five points below were written the day after Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in a bitter and bizarre election campaign in the eleventh month of 2024, set aside, and rediscovered sitting unfinished in a file not quite two years later:
- Most of what and who we voted for in local and state elections passed/won, and that’ll have a greater daily impact on us anyway. More than the overarching rule of Donald J. Trump in his second term.
- Trump’s win in both the popular and EC or Electoral College votes, while not at all anything close to a landslide, is nevertheless clear & decisive in a free, fair, and secure election. That means our system, however in need of reform, still works. It worked well enough the once imminent threat of mass violence and civil war among us Americans has quickly receded. The Right sees the system work so a rebellion isn’t necessary, and the Left is too stunned at its loss of power to do anything violent. These are good things.
- Any attempt to actually go beyond rhetoric to set up a real dictatorship takes time, and will be vigorously contested in the courts, by both the Pentagon and the Intelligence Community, and state, territorial, and local governments as well as by Congress.
- Trump is an isolationist. He won’t go to war with Russia and China, but he will allow them and others to do whatever they want. Which means a nuclear world war is ironically less likely now, but the US will likely be forced to intervene once again down the road somewhere.
- We are still a very divided nation; tho not necessarily in the way we all thought we were.
As a reminder, those words were written on Wednesday 6 November 2024, the day after the Election. And nearly a year later on Tuesday 30 Sept 2025: OMG! How WRONG I was, LOL! How WRONG! Continue reading