Glancing Backward / Looking Forward
Much will be said of the year 2025. One article that stands out is J.B. Shurk's particularly compelling summary: Looking Back at 2025: The Revolution Is Just Beginning - Trump remakes the world, American Thinker, 1 January 2026.
Shurk points out that 2025 has been a pivotal year for America during which Trump and MAGA are issuing in a new era of history. A few excerpts follow:
...this year has been... the beginning of real change... people know that something significant is happening...
President Trump was not supposed to return to the White House. The political Establishment and corporate news media flooded his first term with fake scandals, rigged the 2020 election with fraudulent mail-in ballots...
Among President Trump's many accomplishments, his greatest has surely been his ability to pull back the propaganda press's filtered news curtain to expose as inherently corrupt both the political Uniparty (in which Republicans and Democrats conspire for mutual gain while pretending to fight in front of the American people) and the entrenched federal bureaucracy that sees itself as the actual permanent government of the United States...
When people had a chance to halt the chaos of the Biden years by returning Trump to office, they chose to do so overwhelmingly...
What has President Trump accomplished for the American people in 2025? He has effectively sealed America's borders... He has gone to war with the narco-terrorists... He has used tariffs to reorient the global economy... He has confronted the corrupt Deep State head-on...
President Trump has put NATO on notice that Americans won't be paying and dying for unnecessary European wars...
Twenty-twenty-five can't be eulogized because it is the essential hinge of a MAGA-sized door opening to the next era of history...
As we turn toward 2026, we might ponder what this year holds in store for America and our relation to the world. James Howard Kunstler's lengthy article, Forecast 2026: In the Vortex of the Whirl, is well worth reading. It reveals a notable breadth of understanding of world affairs. A few excerpts follow:
...Our country was predicated on the resolve of virtuous men operating under the rule of law...
The Woke-Jacobin war against our country continues, led by a Democratic Party made even more vicious, depraved, and insane by the 2024 election victory of Mr. Trump, who was left a broken polity after the four-year tableau vivant of "Joe Biden." Can our nation recover its balance, its sense of purpose, its traction in history?...
Nothing is more urgent than cleaning up the machinery of our elections... We must put an end to mail-in ballots... We must eliminate all electronic interfaces between the vote and the tally... We must require voter ID, proof of citizenship, and proof of local voting-district residence...
... Prediction: Mr. Trump will turn up the heat... to expedite passage of election reform. This partly depends on the dark business now occurring in Venezuela, which is the suspected hub of a global election rigging apparatus engineered around Dominion / Smartmatic technology...
The next big hairball is the politicized judiciary, federal judges who consistently interfere in executive actions (the President), a clash between Article II and Article III of the Constitution...
What was not so many decades ago a high trust society based on a coherent common culture and broadly agreed-upon values seems to be devolving into babel and anarchy leading eventually to a generalized social collapse. Out of that, a new consensus about reality will emergently and eventually self-organize...
Humans... need trustworthy authorities. Authority without truth is just cruel, faithless power. The Democratic Party in our time has given you a nice demonstration of how that works. The party deserves to be put out of business...
Interested parties in the USA and the NATO deliberately started the Ukraine War in 2014... It is in everybody's interest that the Ukraine revert to its pre-2014 condition as an uncontested frontier nation within Russia's sphere of influence...
Europe's days as a tourist theme park draw to a close. A new era dawns: the Neo-medieval... Indigenous Brits, Frenchmen, Germans, finally express their pent-up resentment with third world migrants and a movement grows to expel as many as possible back to their nations of origin... It blossoms into medium-grade urban warfare...
Islamism [Islam] will begin to be turned back...
... as advanced by the inimitable "Sundance" writing at The Last Refuge blogspot is that the RINO / NeverTrumper gang actually wants to lose the 2026 midterms so that Mr. Trump will be hamstrung for the remainder of his term...
... I don't believe the Democratic Party will be able to take back the House of Representatives or the US Senate in the 2026 midterms. They have left too wide a slime trail of corruption, avarice, lunacy, and treason...
In his article, Kunstler also notes that: "China's population - which, by the way, is rumored to be well under the 1.4-billion claimed (estimated as low as 775-million now)..."
This obscure demographic insight points to China's success in reducing it's population to more sustainable numbers - something that all nations should strive to attain.
As we look ahead to 2026 with guarded optimism, we might be well-advised to consider Yogi Berra's acclaimed observation that: