I am happy 2019 is over, but I doubt 2020 will be a better year politically. Many, if not all of these, are pretty safe predictions. (I will try to avoid all 20/20 vision or 20/20 hindsight puns.)
1. The Noem administration and the Republican legislature will place a priority on social issues and work diligently to avoid finding ways to fund roads, bridges, nursing homes, or schools.
2. Noem will continue to resist industrial hemp. The legislature will not override her veto of any industrial hemp legislation that they pass.
3. The legislature will discover a mythical liberal enclave in South Dakota that has allegedly limited the rights of a Trumpist. They will pass another Republican version of rights for me but not for thee to prevent said imaginary violation from occurring again.
4. Mike Rounds and Dusty Johnson will both be re-elected. Their eventual Democratic opponents will each get less than 25% of the vote.
5. Democrats will lose 2 seats in the state legislature.
6. There will eventually be an impeachment trial in the Senate, and Trump will remain in office.
7. Democrats will not nominate Bernie Sanders. Their national convention will be marred by protests.
8. Trump will lose the popular vote but win a second term.
9. In December, Republicans will rediscover the deficit after four years of profligate spending and begin to work diligently to dismantle the social safety net programs that remain.
10. The results of the 2020 census will be challenged in court in at least 5 states.
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Kind of a depressing set of predictions. I think Trump loses the election. The question will be whether he, the Supreme Court and his supporters accept the will of the people.
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