The Morning After: Predictions of 2025 and Beyond

The Age of Trump is now an Era. 

What to do next?

Well, for starters, if you are a voter of Trump, or a contrarian that didn't vote, you should probably reach out to your liberal and minority friends who are scared, and assure them that they will be okay, that you will stand behind your decision steadfast and hold the man you have elected accountable, that in the face of tyranny you will fight for their unalienable rights. Don't belittle them. Don't make fun of them. Don't chastise. Be a decent human being, elections aren't football games; these events have real-world implications for people's lives, hopes, and dreams. Be kind. Be humble. 

Of course, I have written 317,000 words (and counting) about this exact event taking place. I loathe when I am right, more so because I was a pessimist and wanted to be wrong when making the ATO series. 

Oh well.

So, now what? Well, we wait and see. But my gut tells me that "unprecedented mandate" means President Trump is going to do exactly what I wrote about in America: The Obliged. 

We can begin with the biggie, Russia. For those that don't know or are unfamiliar with my books, there's somewhat of an antagonist across the Pacific called Russo-Soviet (nee, Russia). This is a manifestation of pacifism that takes place in the Age of Disinformation (nee, Trump), that has allowed Russia to rebuild the old Soviet bloc and beyond. 

International Affairs

First Prediction: Ukraine falls, followed by the US withdrawing from NATO, the NATO bloc falls. 

This was all written in the first book's manuscript in 2017, based on the Crimea annexation. Expect it to be full-fledged reality by 2027. That was quick.

Second Prediction: In the same vein of pacifism abroad, Gaza falls to Israel and Taiwan falls to China. These are less clear on when or how, but I expect it to happen prior to the end of the first four years. 

Legislative Matters

Third Prediction: The Senate will absolutely kill the filibuster. At best-odds the Republicans will have 56 senate seats, so they will kill the filibuster in name of the "unprecedented mandate". 

Fourth Prediction: Once that is out of the way, it's open season. There will be significant tax cuts in order, almost exclusively benefitting the wealthy, because the Oligarchy is very real and very flourishing. Money is power. 

Fifth Prediction: Without a doubt expect a national abortion ban. Without a doubt, expect gay marriage codification to be rescinded, and states to reinstate their gay marriage bans, nullifying marriages across the red states. The Christians demand these actions, after all, they prayed for God to deliver Trump unto them, and God complied (funny how the Lord works for fundamentalist Christians, changing his mind like an undecisive human, but I digress). 

Sixth Prediction: Border Wall. That one is easy. More complicated is how illegal immigration roundups go. Will it be stop and frisk of anyone who looks brown? Will it be only when they break a law? How will this go is anyone's guess.

Seventh Prediction: Something-something-something about transexual genital mutation. Don't worry, they will save mutilating the male penis at birth via circumcision. We need that. 

The Economy

This is really why you voted for him, right? Well, here's to hoping I am wrong finally, because: 

Eighth Prediction: Inflation continues to stagnate household incomes, leading to the long-overdue, long-vaulted recession. Expect it to get ghastly. They will blame Biden.

Ninth Prediction: Your gas won't be a $1.50 a gallon, nor will your eggs be $0.99 a dozen. Nor will rent and housing prices go down, the biggest burden of all. (The latter will drop with the recession, however, wiping out billions in equity and straddling millions who bought homes in the first Trump admin and Biden admin with billions in negative equity). His most ardent supporters will sheen this over, and swear things are better (but they and we both know, they aren't). 

Executive Power

Tenth Prediction: Authoritarian usurping will become the norm. Consolidation of power was really what the first term was all about, in which he abdicated the Judiciary to a mere puppet-branch of the executive. This prediction is a wild card, as anything can happen under the premise of chaos theory. Indeed, I used this to great effect for the entire precipice of the fall of the United States in America: The Obliged.