2019 was a momentous year. We saw the Mueller investigation fizzle out hilariously. All the progs were so mournful and confused. Where was their Russian collusion? Where was the smoking gun? Ah, so sad.
We saw a new Attorney General state on the record that the Trump campaign was spied on. And we saw him assign a special prosecutor to find out whether criminality was involved. And now that prosecutor, John Durham, has answered that question, a criminal investigation is in process. The Coup is upset that Durham hasn’t toed the line that Inspector General Horowitz followed when he said mistakes were made but he couldn’t prove criminality. Durham has followed a bunch of threads back to the guilty and their bosses and it looks like we’ll see some indictments soon.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say that Kevin Clinesmith will either turn state’s evidence or be indicted very soon. If he turns, then we should hear about an indictment of some of the bigger fish within a month or two. So, either way at least one indictment by March 1st.
We’ve had a chance to get to know the Democrat Presidential Candidates both the minor players and the bigger names. It is truly a remarkable collection. And it’s not clear whether the most notable fact is the mediocrity of their intellects or the lunacy of their platforms. Can you imagine Joe Biden or Kamala Harris on the same stage with Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon? Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower debating foreign and domestic policy with Fauxcahantas and Butt Pete? Even FDR, the man who introduced social security would laugh Bernie Sanders off the stage.
Initially I was sure that Creepy Uncle Joe Biden would be the nominee. But when he was slapped around by Harris and eclipsed by Warren in the early state polls and after the Ukraine stuff started coming out, I figured his goose was cooked. Well months have gone by and even though he’s trailing in Iowa and New Hampshire he still leads in the Super Tuesday races and in the national poll so at this point I won’t say who will emerge from the clown car as victor. But it truly has been a wonderful experience to see just how awful the Dem candidates truly are. Sure, they reflect the values and priorities of the far-left vanguard of their party but even the moderates are so out of step with the mainstream that even the center left independents will be horrified at what will be their alternative to President Trump. And forget about the Rust Belt. That will be ours. So, I look forward to continued comedy and optimism watching the Democrat train wreck.
And even the Pelosi Impeachment has been an encouraging sight. The Rust Belt has shrugged it off or even used it as a justification for voting for the President. The rest of the country basically is where it always has been. Our voters are unimpressed with the spectacle Crazy Nancy has created and in fact it looks like the thirty House seats with Democrat incumbents in districts that voted for President Trump are in a lot of trouble. The potential to flip the House is real. That is something to consider.
Several big court cases are in front of the SCOTUS. It should be instructive to see if Roberts really is an honest constitutionalist or a ringer for the left. We’ll probably find that out pretty soon. Also going on in the Supreme Court is the status of Justice Ginsburg. She is presently suffering from metastatic cancer. She has had cancerous tumors removed from her colon, lungs and twice from her pancreas. It doesn’t mean she will succumb from this condition any time in the next few years but it is extremely debilitating for even a young person to stand up under the side effects of the treatments these conditions require. It would not be surprising for her to step down very soon to spend her remaining time with her loved ones. In that event, a replacement of Justice Ginsburg by President Trump would definitively put the Supreme Court beyond even Roberts’ ability to swing left. That would be worth seeing.
We will be able to follow the Brexit process and I fully expect that Boris Johnson will cut a desirable deal with the EU that frees Britain from the irksome legislative control of Brussels and puts immigration control back in Parliament’s hands. I fully expect Johnson and Trump will find plenty of common ground in a trade deal between their two countries.
And finally, we will have the spectacle of the Presidential General Election. I expect that President Trump will demand a better debate landscape than his predecessors agreed to. He should refuse to allow only the usual leftists to ask the questions? Wouldn’t it be a hoot if some of the good guys were given a spot on the panel. How about Tucker Carlson and Michael Anton? Honestly, I expect the President to win with a larger electoral vote count than in 2016. I think he’ll add Minnesota to his tally and maybe even Nevada.
So, you can see 2020 will be a chock full of drama, comedy and consequence. Stay tuned.