The longer term has a historical past. And whereas we are able to’t see into the long run, wanting into our previous can show highly effective.
That stated, there are two quotes that come to thoughts.
Let’s begin with George Bernard Shaw (quoting German thinker Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel):
“We be taught from historical past that we be taught nothing from historical past.”
Politically, 2024 had me and plenty of others, fairly frankly, stunned.
It was a 12 months that saw President Joe Biden drop his re-election bid after being forced out by top leaders of his own party.
Vice President Kamala Harris swept in because the get together’s nominee and stood her own in a debate with former President Donald Trump.
The polls confirmed the 2 operating a good race. But the polls got it WRONG!
It was a 12 months that noticed Trump convicted of 34 felonies, nearly assassinated and winning the right to return to the Oval Office.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, became Trump’s right-hand man in 2024 and promised to help trim the budget and streamline government.
Now the president-elect is popping America into Florida with the potential for resounding implications. Take a look at the host of mates, neighbors and loyalists from the Sunshine State that Trump is nominating for key administration positions: Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio, Susie Wiles and others.
Mar-a-Lago may be 1,000 miles south of Washington, D.C., however it’s the place Trump holds courtroom and is fashioning an administration in “his personal picture.”
Little doubt, 2024 was a 12 months of political disruption, and never solely within the good outdated U.S.A.
According to Pew Research, voters in additional than 60 nations went to the polls and ousted incumbents left and proper. “Rattled by rising prices, divided over cultural issues and indignant on the political status quo, voters in lots of nations despatched a message of frustration.”
It created alternatives for right-wing populist agendas in lots of European parliamentary elections, together with France, Austria, Romania, Portugal, the UK and Germany.
And, in fact, Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement was the dominant drive within the Republican get together and dominates the president-elect’s agenda.
How profitable will Trump be in remodeling America? How will what occurred in 2024 form the long run physique politic? What have we realized from historical past?
Properly, let’s return to the place we began right here.
Is Shaw proper — or did Stephen Hawking maybe body issues even higher?
“We spend quite a lot of time learning historical past, which, let’s face it, is usually the historical past of stupidity.”
Stephen Hawking
News4JAX political analyst and head of the Jacksonville College Public Coverage Institute Rick Mullaney joins me on this week’s “Politics & Energy” to take a look at 2024, a political 12 months like no different, and the way it would possibly form the political panorama in 2025.
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