Musings on the U.S. election

I guess my first observation, for those who are worried, would be — wait one year. On November 6, 2025, wake up and look around. Spoiler alert: you aren’t in a government concentration camp. You can still watch MSNBC, or CNN, or whatever Democrat party propaganda alphabet news site you prefer. Some things may be different (maybe some bloated government departments have been abolished; maybe the FBI has different leadership or less personnel; maybe there are less wars going on somewhere) but your day-to-day life is not materially different than it was a year prior.

The major difference between a Harris and a Trump administration in terms of who might be incarcerated is: 1000+ people questionably jailed for things from January 6, 2020 are hopefully free soon. Elon Musk would likely have been jailed by Harris (for not maintaining the sort of left-leaning censorship that Twitter exhibited before he bought it); he’ll still be free. That’s about it. Maybe some others who leaned hard onto the scales of justice in the last 4 years are being held accountable, but I doubt it.

The mainstream media will not change. They will continue to torch their own credibility and relevance in pursuit of (in their view) attacking Trump. This will go increasingly poorly for them, but they are too dumb / blinded by partisanship to realize or care.

I do not foresee anything becoming worse in a major way. There is potential for some things to get a lot better. I hope the incoming administration takes vigorous action on a broad range of things just after the inauguration, to flood the opposition with things to complain about, such that no one thing gets effectively opposed. If a whole range of actions succeed, then even if things slow down or bog down later, at least the initial stage will, by then, be a fait accompli.

There should be less global conflict, and a better general economic condition. You’ll at least have the same or better freedom of speech, which would likely have declined otherwise. Ditto for gun ownership / rights. One or more elderly individual-rights-oriented Supreme Court justices may have been replaced by (hopefully) similarly-minded much younger versions. Tik Tok will hopefully either be banned or owned by some U.S. company. Beyond that, I don’t want to get my hopes up.

Feel free to email me next November to either tell me how wrong I was or to praise me as a political visionary. :)