The Year of Dread Incoming: 2024

It's a little hard to wish everybody I know a Happy New Year when I know damn well that the coming year 2024 is going to be the most stressful, anxiety-fueled year most of us will ever see.

We're going to be dealing with the most consequential Presidential election cycle since the Great Depression, the fate of the nation facing the reality that donald trump will be the Republican candidate for 2024: We are facing the reality trump is openly promising dictatorship and the end of every constitutional norm just so he can avoid felony convictions.

That trump is facing felony convictions is something we've never seen before in a candidate from one of the two major political parties. Sure, there was Eugene Debs in a jail cell back in 1920 but he was with a minor third party and never stood a snowball's chance in West Palm Beach. The most Debs could wrangle were 1 million voters. trump will claim the Republican voter base at 62 million at least.

And this is with trump facing state criminal charges in both New York (tax fraud) and Georgia (election interference and RICO), and then federal charges in DC (for insurrection) and South Florida (for stolen classified documents). This is the first presidential cycle where the primary elections between Feburary through May are intermixed with trial dates between March through May for a leading candidate. 

And that's not even touching on trump's many civil court cases including the wrap-up of the New York fraud case by mid-January, his second defamation trial with Carroll, and several others.

Remember the phrase "Trial of the Century" whenever a scandalous crime took place and a sordid circus of a trial would follow? Trials like the Stanford White murder, or the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping and Death trial, or the Chicago Eight Seven, or the Manson Family murder sprees, or that whole OJ spectacle?

All of 2024 will be TRUMP TRIALS, every Trial of the Century in one year, on steroids. Unless trump succeeds in delaying all his criminal matters until after the election, which increases the horror that he may yet steal (not win) the November election and avoid any accountability as he abuses the legal immunity of the office to his whims.

Which leaves the other legal battle over trump's possible disqualification under the 14th Amendment on the table, as the Supreme Court may be forced to decide on that matter before November comes.

I once thought the 2012 election cycle was too stressful. Then 2016 happened. Now every presidential election is a nightmare while that con artist threatens to undo everything I've ever believed about America.

Gods help us.

2024 is two hours away.