Just a few thoughts...

[DetlefK]

1. The recession will be worse than you think.

Economists were warning in 2016 that there will be a mild recession in the mid-2020s, simply due to the cyclical nature how a free market works.
The date-range was updated in 2018 to 2020-2024 when Trump passed his massive tax-cuts.
The date-range was updated in 2019 to 2021 when Trump started his trade-war with China.

Naturally occuring recession + Trump-economy + COVID-19. A perfect storm.



2. Mass-deaths each day are the new normal.

Trump has basically declared victory, is disbanding his COVID-19 task-force and is walking away from the problem.
COVID-19 deaths will be treated like gun-deaths:
"There is nothing anybody could possibly do about this! These deaths have always been inevitable!"
"These deaths are a small price to pay for our freedoms and for a free market! If you want to do something about these deaths, you are against freedom!"



3. The election.

- Trump will not agree to a Presidential Debate and then brag how the media begs him to come to them and how he could beat Joe Biden in a debate if he wanted to.

- Republican candidates will waver on whether or not to stand by Trump, unsure which attracts more voters. This will lead to an electoral bloodbath, similar to what happened to the Democrats in 2014 when democratic candidates ran away from Obama.

- The victory over Trump will be very narrow, because many people will stay at home, thinking that Joe Biden got this in the bag.

- Trump will refuse to accept defeat. He and his campaign will cry voter-fraud and whatnot. They will blame the Deep State and The Swamp for engineering Trump's loss.



4. After the election.

- All the rules that the media and the Republicans ignored for Trump suddenly are in effect again. Joe Biden is held to an impossibly high standard.

- The Republicans and Fox News lament that talking about Trump's Presidency is now off-limits. It's old news! Why are you stuck in the past????????????????

- The Republicans and Fox News lament that the Democrats don't want to work with them. The Democrats are so meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean.

- Republicans all of a sudden start caring about the budget again.

- Trump keeps touring the country with quasi-campaign-rallies (because he's addicted to the admiration of his hardcore-fans), live-commenting anything Biden does, bragging how he could do it so much better than Biden, whining how he was cheated out of his reelection, threatening to sue but not actually suing (because he wants attention, not litigation).