Sadly, I doubt you'll be proven wrong on many (if any) of the items on your list. Many of these things are almost identical to what I'm predicting, as well. The mind-boggling part is that many of the people who voted for Trump are among those who will be hurt the worst, yet they don't seem to realize it. They'll be in for a painful wakeup call.
Oof. That list is rough, but I think you’re on point with all of them.
I’ll add one if NATO membership goes away: Russia will invade another country and my bet is that it won’t be a former Soviet bloc country. I fear for Finland, my mother’s country of origin. I hope I'm wrong.
Three specific others I'd add:
I suspect the U.S. postal service will be dissolved, or “privatized”. NASA probably won’t be too far behind, or at least we’ll start hearing rumblings about it even if it doesn’t happen. But the post-office for sure.
We will see a surge of charter schools and legislative support from states and Congress for “parental choice”. We will see the beginnings of public school closures and consolidations. (Frankly, not enough Americans are paying attention to the fact this is already happening in Texas even as there has been pushback from rural Republicans.)
Censorship. I foresee that only certain Trump-supporting media will have White House access. I expect legislative actions at state levels under the Trump administration to step up the existing push for book bans and existing scrutiny of libraries and extend that to the banning of certain topics and words in public media (DEI and gender being the first). And while, yes, there will immediately First Amendment lawsuits against these, it’ll be a slog through GOP-controlled courts and the defense will couch them in terms of hate speech or pornography.
Sadly, I doubt you'll be proven wrong on many (if any) of the items on your list. Many of these things are almost identical to what I'm predicting, as well. The mind-boggling part is that many of the people who voted for Trump are among those who will be hurt the worst, yet they don't seem to realize it. They'll be in for a painful wakeup call.
Oof. That list is rough, but I think you’re on point with all of them.
I’ll add one if NATO membership goes away: Russia will invade another country and my bet is that it won’t be a former Soviet bloc country. I fear for Finland, my mother’s country of origin. I hope I'm wrong.
Three specific others I'd add:
I suspect the U.S. postal service will be dissolved, or “privatized”. NASA probably won’t be too far behind, or at least we’ll start hearing rumblings about it even if it doesn’t happen. But the post-office for sure.
We will see a surge of charter schools and legislative support from states and Congress for “parental choice”. We will see the beginnings of public school closures and consolidations. (Frankly, not enough Americans are paying attention to the fact this is already happening in Texas even as there has been pushback from rural Republicans.)
Censorship. I foresee that only certain Trump-supporting media will have White House access. I expect legislative actions at state levels under the Trump administration to step up the existing push for book bans and existing scrutiny of libraries and extend that to the banning of certain topics and words in public media (DEI and gender being the first). And while, yes, there will immediately First Amendment lawsuits against these, it’ll be a slog through GOP-controlled courts and the defense will couch them in terms of hate speech or pornography.