What do you think will happen–or might happen–in 2025?
This is the time to hazard a guess in our annual contest to see who can make the best prediction for the year ahead. When 2025 draws to a close, we will review the predictions and proclaim a winner, as we did on yesterday’s post.
You may be the next winner of the GlutenFree Prize, a non-physical honor named after the reader, whose handle is BernankeGlutenFree, who won the 2020 prize for predicting COVID! The winning guesses are not always that dramatic–one contestant won for some detailed projections about the price of eggs, among other things.
Here are the instructions from last year and the years before that:
I’ll go first. . . .
(1) In the first year of his second year, President Donald Trump will apply his expertise in the art of the deal to Russia/Ukraine and to Israel/Gaza, brokering a permanent peace fire in both conflicts. For this, he will confound his critics by winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
(2) [A replay of my prediction for 2024, which didn’t quite happen, so I am trying it again for 2025.] Woke progressivism will fade, as its pretension of intersectionality collapses in anti-semitism, and corporations, entertainers, politicians, and academics “awaken” to its true nature and move on. This will result in a return to a more old-fashioned liberalism in the Democratic party, which will attempt to recapture the working class by removing what ordinary voters most despise on the Left.
(3) The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will create a huge indignant uproar in Washington, D.C., for recommending the shutdown of long-standing government agencies, suggestions that President Trump will implement, but will prove hugely popular among voters for saving billions of dollars. As a result, the Republican Party will return to a more old-fashioned conservatism and its former identity as the cost-cutting, balanced-budget party.
Now your turn. . . .
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