Ten Bold Predictions for 2025

Topic: Perspective

In what has been an annual exercise in forecasting accountability, which is much needed for many prominent prognosticators, it is now time for me to roll out my Ten Bold Predictions for 2025.

The events of the past two months, highlighted by Donald Trump’s victory over not only Kamala Harris, but the entire rotten political apparatus of the global elite, have drastically altered what could have been your forthcoming read into some very gloomy predictions. As has been said, “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” so all optimism must be tempered with the understanding that dark forces will attempt to get in the way of all things good, honorable, true, and just - including things predicted within the lines of this article.

I am feeling pretty good after nailing 7 out of 10 predictions for 2024, and I feel confident most of these are going to hit the mark, as well. Without further ado, enjoy my Ten Bold Predictions for 2025:

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I. Donald Trump will Assume the Presidency at Noon on January 20, 2025

I may be taking a knee from so much online activity, but I’m aware there are many theories flying about how Democrats and Vichy Republicans are going to stab Trump in the back and inaugurate J.D. Vance, Harris, or some other compromise candidate. It seems to be common sense, given that no U.S. President-elect has failed to be inaugurated, that Trump will take the oath in 19 days, but since there are so many chaos scenarios bouncing around, this deserves its own entry and enshrinement as my very first prediction for the year.

The very last day for any obstacle to be presented is January 6, 2025, an ominous anniversary, and the date Congress will count and certify the 538 electoral votes from the various states and Washington, D.C. Unless there are issues with the certification, I can’t see a scenario in which bad actors will make serious procedural moves to prevent Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s security teams will certainly be in an elevated posture after multiple attempts on his life last year, as should be expected. Any efforts to prevent Trump’s inauguration would certainly be met with unparalleled public opposition.

One final point – if I’m wrong about this one, we will have way bigger problems than anything else on this list to deal with.

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II. Shapiro and Whitmer Will Position Themselves as the Top Democrat Standard Bearers

With Pennsylvania looming as the key state in the 2024 election (the Keystone, even), I opined that Josh Shapiro, the state’s ambitious governor, hoped for Harris to lose his state, and the national race, and would even covertly move against her with his own network of operatives. I think, looking at the gains Trump made in eastern Pennsylvania, that may have actually happened.

Harris losing the key working-class battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and having tighter than usual margins in New Jersey, New York, Minnesota, and Illinois paves the way for Democrat governors of blue collar states to say, “Hey guys, we went too far to the left the last time around and nominated a woke mean girl from California. Maybe it is time to come home to our roots. By the way, I am the only person on this stage who can win Pennsylvania (or Michigan, in the case of Gretchen Whitmer).”

It is no secret that the Soros network is all in on Shapiro, who will be easily reelected in a Trump midterm, owing not only to his popularity with the middle-of-the-road voter, but due to his ballot harvesting machine and the weakness of an opposing party that can’t figure out its bread and butter is to appeal to blue collar voters. Shapiro can enter the 2028 presidential fray as sitting governor of the most important battleground state, which will slightly disadvantage Whitmer, who will term out in January 2027, about six months before debates start. Whitmer will need to mix the blue collar message with the mean girl approach Harris ran in order to reach the feminist and woke mobs, who, speaking of…

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III. Wokeism Isn’t Going Back to Bed

Bernie Sanders, who came much closer than observers expected from upsetting Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination in 2016, which the party rigged for her, pissed off his overwhelmingly young, woke, and mostly populist base by eventually kissing the ring not only for her, but for Joe Biden four years later. I distinctly remember one online commenter saying (paraphrased), “you can’t keep us up all night and feed us sugar and just expect us to go back to bed,” when everyone got angry about Bernie cozying up to the political machine he supposedly stood against.

In the case of Shapiro, he will have to face the same troubles he had last year when his name was atop of V.P. speculation, and I’m not just talking about him being short. I’m referencing the deep divide between factions on either side of the Israel-Gaza dispute. I am fairly confident Trump took his swing to deepen this divide and sideline the only V.P. candidate the media could have sold for tipping Pennsylvania as narrative.

That dispute is only one that will emerge as some seek to portray themselves as centrists, while others decry even the slightest move back to supporting manufacturing, fossil fuels, and policies that will return factories and mills to these once-proud “Rust Belt” cities and towns. This will only expedite the movement of minority working-class voters to Republicans, so long as the GOP can get and stay on message, and the insane white liberals keep the party focused on feelings, gender, and a false sense of equality. Gavin Newsom will most likely be their guy, and the only reason he didn’t jump all over 2024 is because he didn’t want to get risk getting smoked by Trump in the middle of a working-class realignment and give up his perch as Governor of the largest state for a losing effort. His issue is that the country won’t look forward to having a second consecutive California liberal floated out there when we need stuff fixed here, and for actual Americans. The coming chasm between Democrats who want to split the middle and those who wish to persist in insane delusion has the potential to further turn the industrial heartland of America, and even more states, against Democrats to the benefit of the 2028 GOP nominee, and those beyond.

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