Predictions from 2016

What to worry about for Trump. Or was I being hysterical?

From December 31, 2016. When I was brooding on the upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump for his first term. It was a shot at prophecy, which I’ve since sworn off. How do you think I did?

This is the list, by the way, that the brilliant and eccentric and intransigently right-wing Mickey Kaus flagged in 2017 as hysteria and Trump Derangement Syndrome.

(That, by the way, was on the weirdest, most disturbing literary panel I’ve ever been to, to which Mickey brought an armed security detail.)

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So, flashback to December 2016. (This was the month the CIA concluded that Russia actively tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 U.S. presidential election. )

Getting very specific about the possible consequences of this administration is helping me sort out hysteria from useful and measured foresight.

To that end, here are the things (the least partisan and value-laden things) I most fear from Trump and co (in his first term).