LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
MY WORST-CASE SCENARIO FOR 2020
A left-wing Democrat beats Trump. “Progressives” and their pinko ilk sweep the House of Representatives. Democrats win a majority in the Senate.
encyclopedia... except listening to her is less like reading all 22 volumes of the World Book and more like having them dropped on your ear. So the Oval Office wouldn’t really be that much different – just a lot duller. And, since all White House pronouncements will be either incomprehensible psycho-ward Marxist babble or so intensely boring that reporters will fall into a catatonic trance, there will be no news from the White House. CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the New York Times , NPR, and AM talk radio will have nothing to get hysterical about. The market for news media will shrink to about three people – Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And, if AOC doesn’t learn how to read and can’t figure out how to work the channel changer, it will be just Nancy and Chuck. The news media industry will collapse. So there’s one silver lining right there. (And silver prices have seen an uptick since mid- December.) With the collapse of the news media industry, we might even start getting some news again.
Already, this makes my aching brow and upset stomach seem like minor problems. But what would be the actual outcome of this worst-case scenario? We’d have a president who’s a ridiculous fool and is detested by half of America. Yes, yes, I know, lots of people say we have that already. But Trump, even to those who loathe him, is undeniably entertaining and fun to make fun of. There’s nothing funny about Bernie Sanders. He’s a sad, old, delusional crank shouting gibberish in the street. He belongs in a mental health facility, not a laugh line. Elizabeth Warren is even less entertaining. She is a schoolmarm, and not the beloved “Our Miss Brooks” kind. Warren is the teacher who gives pop quizzes after lunch on Fridays, waits until 3 p.m. to announce the topic of 30-page papers due at 8 a.m. Monday morning, and assigns the complete works of Proust to be read by her students over spring break. She is also the national know-it-all, universal answer-pants, and self-appointed authority on everything and its brother. She talks like an
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January 2020
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