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The Dreaded GOAT Predictions for 2024 Part I — Where Do We Go From Here?

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Tom Luongo [Editor’s note: Fascinating projections about 2024, where I have added my “Top 10 Stories of 2023” to round out a dreadful year.] Where do we go from here Terror in Rue de St. Denis, murder on the periphery Someone else in someone else’s pocket Christ knows I don’t know how to stop it Poppies at the cenotaph, the cynics can’t afford to laugh I heard in on the telegraph there’s Uzis on a street corner — Marillion, White Russian Last year I finally gave in to the pressure and…

Bougiecrats are headed for a fall-of-communism-style collapse

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Toby Rogers Sensing defeat they are lashing out in all sorts of weird ways Background and context As far back as 2001, Democratic stalwarts John Judis and Ruy Teixeira began making the case, to anyone who would listen, that demographic trends in the U.S. (e.g. immigration and higher birthrates in the Latino population) would lead to a semi-permanent Democratic majority in government. Their book, The Emerging Democratic Majority created a cottage industry of pollsters and political scientists who showed, with fancy charts and graphs, how Democrats, particularly Progressive Democrats, were about to be in…