How My 2025 Predictions Went – and Some Predictions for 2026
It’s that time of year again, when I assess my past prognostications and offer some fresh ones. In my January 2, 2025, column entitled “How My 2024 Predictions Went – And Some Predictions for 2025,” I made 20 predictions in those heady days post-Trump’s election victory. I had a pretty good accuracy rate. If you are playing baseball, I calculate I was batting .750. Not bad.
I thought the Senate would confirm almost all of Trump’s nominees because the Senate Republicans were not stupid; for once, it did. I severely underestimated Mike Johnson, though – the guy pulled it off. He kept a razor-thin majority alive and got the Big Beautiful Bill and other critical stuff passed. I know conservatives are mad because Johnson and John Thune – who has also done a great job – have not passed a bunch of other things, so let’s make 2026 the “Year of Angry Conservatives Learning What The Hell The Filibuster Is.”
I expected the tech overlords to get frustrated at having to move at the speed of government and depart from their temporary alliance with the GOP. However, the Dems stepped up, showed the depths of their crazy (California wealth tax, anyone?), and the tech bros have come back.
I thought the economy would boom under Trump in 2025, and it has started to, but right at the wire in the last couple of months. You’ll see that prediction again below.
I thought the Houthis would knock it off, and they have. I thought China would leave Taiwan alone but keep building up. Correct. I also thought that Trump would end the war in Ukraine, but that has not happened yet (he ended several other conflicts, though, and I bet he pulls it off in 2026). I correctly assessed that Israel would kill the semi-human Hamas scumbags in heaps until they groveled for peace, which they have; though I did not expect so many of the hostages to survive. Glad I was partially wrong on that one. And I predicted that, “Iran’s mullahs will behave or die. Personally, I prefer option two.” I got my wish.
I was right that Canada did not become our 51st state and that Trudeau would go; I did not expect it would be an intraparty change and that the ridiculous Canadians would elect Trudeau, less Castro’s seed. I was right that we did not buy Greenland, and that we should just take it.
No, SCOTUS did not issue any major Second Amendment rulings last year. We can hope that changes in 2026.
I thought GOP tofu-spines Joni Ernst and/or Thom Tillis would face a serious primary; I was only technically wrong – both retired rather than fight for their tiresome brand of invertebrate Fredoconnectivity. I was right that some soft Republicans would make another run at amnesty via “comprehensive immigration reform,” and I was right that this idea went over like a leper at a jacuzzi party.
I called it re: JD Vance. He became Trump’s go-to Mr. Fix-it and has been deep in the mix in the administration. I was right that the media would try and fail to drive a wedge between him and Trump.
I was right that Kamala Harris would not run for California governor. It appears she is running for president. You go, girl! I’m behind that flex 200%. Her frenemy Joe Biden faded from public view, and his decline accelerated, just as I predicted. Moreover, there were a bunch of tell-all books touching on his manifest dementia. Also, as predicted, the regime media sought to make up for giving him a get-out-of-memory-care-free card by lying about Trump twice as hard.
I was gloriously correct that Trump would pardon most every J6 defendant, that the establishment would cry about it, and that voters would not care. Trump deserves enormous credit for acting decisively to remedy these grave and despicable injustices.
I was pleased to be right that Pete Hegseth would fix military readiness and recruiting numbers. Under his leadership, the Department of War has neutered the mullahs, pummeled ISIS around the globe, and provided us hours of enjoyment watching videos from “Call of Duty: Miami Vice.”
I cannot believe that Scott Jennings was not snatched away from CNN for a primetime Fox show. Fox, you are leaving money on the table here!
Finally, the upcoming “People’s Republic”/Kelly Turnbull graphic novel did not come out, but "Panama Red" did, and I predict you will dig it.
Here’s what I think will happen in 2026:
The Senate will not end the filibuster despite enormous pressure from President Trump and many MAGA stalwarts. But it will do another budget reconciliation before the midterms.
Here’s a controversial one: I expect we will expand our seats in the Senate and that the House Republicans will keep a small majority. I know it’s ahistorical, but we just reelected a president to a non-sequential term. The rulebook got tossed out the Overton Window about the time Trump came down that elevator. If the economy is cooking, we do fine.
The economy will keep cooking. We oldsters have seen this before with Ronald Reagan and Trump 1.0 – once conservative economics get put in place, prosperity follows. At some point in 2026, people will look around and say, “Gee, things are pretty good.”
Here’s a scary one – at least one significant GOP-affiliated figure will be violently attacked and perhaps hurt or killed. The Democrats’ fueling of hate and rage among their freakshow base will inevitably lead to violence, which they consider a feature, not a bug.
Pete Hegseth remains SecWar despite all attempts to humiliate Trump by forcing him out. He will lead the military to more recruiting records, and you will see a major focus on trimming the deadwood timeservers and promoting the warfighting killers. We will not be sucked into a major war, though our enemies, like the CCP, will keep building up to take us on. But we will use the US Armed Forces to take out terrorists, drug traffickers, and the odd commie dictator.
Maduro in Venezuela is toast – I expect he will choose jetting into exile over swinging from a Caracas lamppost and vamoose to one of his sponsors’ capitals. Maybe he’ll get a Moscow condo next to Assad. But there’s more. When Venezuela de-commifies, the next domino to fall is Cuba. It’s about time we freed Cuba from socialism, the only ideology so evil and incompetent that it can take a country full of Cubans and make it poor.
The Mogadishu, Minnesota, fraud scandal will grow. Look for local Democrat officials to get indicted. And look for the regime media to try first to ignore the scandals (which we will find are nationwide), then minimize them, then outright defend them. But fraud in government will be a big theme in 2026, and that will hurt the Dems.
Israel will fade from the news, and the dumb people in our camp who hate it will find some other stupid thing to obsess over. But the good news is that Israel will quietly keep killing its degenerate enemies, who are also our enemies.
I think we will see some sort of peace – or at least an extended truce – in Ukraine. No one will like any agreement that could be negotiated – Ukraine will have to give up too much, and nothing but war on Putin (meaning a war against nuclear-armed Russia) is going to satisfy the warmonger caucus. Putin will agree to stop only if he senses it is to his advantage at that instant. Any peace treaty will fail to solve the 1000-year intra-Slavic dispute for good. Sadly, the end of this war will not be the end.
America’s relations with Europe will continue to deteriorate, no matter how much EU flunkies and US fellow travelers lecture us on how we need to be quiet and obey. As the truth about how the relative levels of oppression in EU countries and Russia are converging, Americans will have even less desire to defend Dictatorship Lite against Dictatorship Heavy. The current boasts about how Europe is going to build up its own military will come to nothing. The kind of Europeans who might defend their countries are the very ones their rulers hate most. Starmer and the rest of the elected dictators will keep power. Europe’s establishment is not going to make the same mistake America’s establishment did and let an outsider take power. They will continue to welcome their future Muslim overlords in the most massive act of cultural suicide in human history. And the oppression will continue, though they will fold in their efforts to undo the First Amendment in the face of the Trump administration’s refusal to tolerate their interference.
There will be one or two cabinet secretaries and major officials who leave, but the current leadership lineup for Trump 2.0 will continue, and so will the full-speed-ahead approach to governing and undoing the deep state.
After about March, we won’t hear any more about this Epstein nonsense. The bad news is the dummies will move onto something else. Of course, there will be no revelations about Trump being in cahoots with the perversions, though that won’t stop leftists and other morons from lying about it.
Speaking of dummies, Thomas Massie will not win reelection. Good riddance. Also, many weak Republicans will choose to retire. The new congressional class will be much more based. Look for Trump and us patriots to avenge the Indiana betrayal at the ballot box.
Trump will not hold back on immigration enforcement and will hit the invaders where it hurts by cutting their federal assistance. We’ll hear more sob stories and have to work through many bogus district court rulings, but the great remigration is going to the next level as the BBB enforcement money comes online.
The Supreme Court will finally have enough of these lawless Democrat judges with their nonsensical rulings and Star Wars names and rein them in. But it will uphold birthright citizenship, probably 7-2. Sorry. Would love to be wrong on that one.
Justice Alito will retire this summer, and Justice Thomas might, but probably not. Look for Democrats to accuse the nominees of participation in the Epstein scandal, the JFK assassination, and the chemtrails crisis.
The current GOP gyrations over the fringe nut wing will fade. The Candace Owens of the world will be seen as tiresome, and interest in their doings will fade. If it goes to trial this year, the Brigette Macron case will end with a huge verdict against her. As for that rodent Nick Fuentes, the Cory Booker of Groyperdom, most of his followers will stop listening to him when they discover girls and he gets mad at them. And hopefully, Tucker will come to his senses – many of us are sincerely worried about him.
Turning Point USA will come roaring back under Erika Kirk and be a major presence in the 2026 midterms.
Hollywood’s decline will continue, aided by ill-conceived strikes by creatives that will only hasten the transition to AI content and the death of theaters. Anachronistic woke stuff, like interrupting the Stranger Things action for a 20-minute coming-out sequence, will no longer move the culture; instead, they will draw mockery. There will be a “People’s Republic”/Kelly Turnbull graphic novel in 2026, However, as I seem to say every year, there probably won’t “be a movie/series deal until the right-wing billionaires figure out that winning in the pop culture arena has more impact than funding yet another white paper on regulatory reform written by a bow-tied nerd at the American Forum for Liberty, Eagles, Families, and Forums.”
The 250th Anniversary of 1776 and other marquee events will be huge successes as the haters, whiners, and land acknowledgers are sidelined in favor of patriots who actually love our country. 2026 will be the year when we won’t be ordered to apologize for being American – though none of us ever actually did.
Now, let me wrap up with my usual closing to these prediction columns: See you again in 12 months, assuming these idiots have not caused a nuclear and/or civil war in the meantime, so that I can give you some more inevitably wrong predictions for 2027.
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