Prediction

So, here goes nothing. Kamala Harris is going to win the election. She is going to do better than the polls are currently suggesting. In fact, I don't have a heck of a lot of faith in polls anymore. I believe the American voter will reject a sexually assaulting, insurrectionist felon, who mocks veterans and uses misogyny, fear and racism to stoke his base.

The BS challenges will be filed and filed and filed, but lies don't hold sway in courtrooms. His cult, however, will believe the lies and there will be violence. We can only hope enough of them will see what happened to their Jan. 6 brethren and will care more about their families and actual freedom than hurting other people.

Trump will be sentenced in his felony case to house arrest. Who knows? Maybe three months. The judge will explain that if it were just the felonies, he wouldn't have to serve time, but he will note that Trump endangered the lives of court personnel, showed no respect for the court, nor showed any remorse. The fact that he postponed sentencing leads me to believe this one.

This will start another round of violence, because, as always, a man-child who was born rich is always the victim and never the perpetrator.

His ensuing trials will be even worse news for him. The documents case will be restarted by the appeals court and he will be found guilty in all three of the remaining cases. Having been convicted of felonies, he will be a repeat offender and will serve harsher sentences because of it. He might remain under home confinement for the rest of his life, or maybe he'll serve time in prison. I think judges will not take his breaking the rules of home confinement lightly and may well switch him from that to prison if he flouts the rules.

In twenty years, the children born to MAGA couples will become adults. The boys, raised to emulate a misogynist, will have a higher prevalence of incarceration for violence against women—who having been raised during the Me Too movement, and won't take it anymore.

The movie version sees some of the MAGA faithful realizing later in life that they were in a cult and making better choices. But Trump has broken much of this country and it is going to take a long time to fix it…if it can be fixed.
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