Morning Jolt: Ring Out the Old, Bring In the New

This is the last Morning Jolt of 2020. I hope you've gotten through this flaming dumpster fire of a year okay. Let's close it out by looking ahead and trying to get a sense of what to expect on the political, economic, and cultural fronts.

What Will 2021 Bring?

As noted yesterday, most predictions will be wrong, but people make them anyway, in part because living requires us to make assumptions about what tomorrow and the next day will bring.

I think President-elect Joe Biden and his administration will get stuck in the mud pretty fast. Biden was elected to not be Donald Trump, and he'll manage that part of the job from the first minute. And maybe he'll get some cooperation from Mitch McConnell here and there. Biden's ability to get Democratic priorities enacted becomes stronger if Democrats win both Senate races in Georgia. Right now, I think the two races will split, as Georgians, exhausted after a seemingly endless season of attack ads dissecting four flawed candidates, hedge their ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY December 30 2020 WITH JIM GERAGHTY December 30 2020 Ring Out the Old, Bring In the New This is the last Morning Jolt of 2020. I hope you've gotten through this flaming dumpster fire of a year okay. Let's close it out by looking ahead and trying to get a sense of what to expect on the political, economic, and cultural fronts. What Will 2021 Bring? As noted yesterday, most predictions will be wrong, but people make them anyway, in part because living requires us to make assumptions about what tomorrow and the next day will bring. I think President-elect Joe Biden and his administration will get stuck in the mud pretty fast. Biden was elected to not be Donald Trump, and he'll manage that part of the job from the first minute. And maybe he'll get some cooperation from Mitch McConnell here and there. Biden's ability to get Democratic priorities enacted becomes stronger if Democrats win both Senate races in Georgia. Right now, I think the two races will split, as Georgians, exhausted after a seemingly endless season of attack ads dissecting four flawed candidates, hedge their ...   READ MORE

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