Ooh, Look! More Lame Predictions of a Trump Apocalypse.
Remember in 2016 how Donald Trump’s surprise victory sent the political left into a collective panic? According to them, black people would lose their civil rights, LGBTQ Americans would be rounded up into concentration camps, and the economy would tank.
One of my favorite predictions came from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who claimed that Trump’s election would trigger a global economic recession.
"So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight,” he wrote. "I suppose we could get lucky somehow. But on economics, as on everything else, a terrible thing has just happened."
Like every other apocalyptic prediction from the left about Trump’s presidency, Krugman was dead wrong. But I’m convinced these predictions were never serious in the sense that the people who made them actually believed them. Rather, they wanted other people to believe them. Look at how easily the Trump-Russia collusion hoax became “truth” to so many that to this day, there are still people who are pushing and believing the lie.
Now, as polls show that Trump’s return to the White House looks increasingly likely, we’re being treated to the same old apocalyptic predictions about how dangerous Trump is supposed to be.
The Economist, for example, concluded that Trump’s election in 2024 would result in the usual end-of-the-word calamities, like human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, and mass hysteria! You know how it goes.
"This is a perilous moment for a man like Mr Trump to be back knocking on the door of the Oval Office,” the Economist predicts. "Democracy is in trouble at home. Mr Trump’s claim to have won the election in 2020 was more than a lie: it was a cynical bet that he could manipulate and intimidate his compatriots, and it has worked. America also faces growing hostility abroad, challenged by Russia in Ukraine, by Iran and its allied militias in the Middle East and by China across the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea. Those three countries loosely co-ordinate their efforts and share a vision of a new international order in which might is right and autocrats are secure."
Yada, yada, yada. Who cares at this point? It’s funny how the same people who claimed that George W. Bush stole two elections and that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election are suddenly of the mind that questioning the results of an election is an attack on democracy.
Trump may not be my first choice in the GOP primary this year, but after hearing the same apocalyptic shtick from the left in 2016, one might think that maybe it’s time for some new material. There’s a reason why Trump is eclipsing Biden in the polls that these doomsday Nostradamus wannabes can’t quite wrap their heads around: Americans were better off under Trump than they have been under Joe Biden.
This is why we see Trump haters literally accusing him of the worst things imaginable, including things that, ironically, Joe Biden is doing right now. "If elected to a second term, Donald Trump would prosecute anyone he deems an enemy, unleash troops on protesters, and essentially unravel the rule of law as we know it,” Biden’s former press secretary Jen Psaki claimed on MSNBC last week.
The truth is that the left needs these outlandish apocalyptic predictions of what a Trump return to the White House will bring because they have no other case to support four more years of Joe Biden. More inflation? No thanks. More pandering to Iran and China? Pass. More illegal immigrants coming into this country in record numbers? Heck no.
Despite being the most vilified man in the media, Donald Trump not only remains viable in the 2024 presidential election, I dare say he’s favored to win it. Americans know what each man has to offer, and they’re choosing Trump.
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