While the name of the next president is unknown, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen. For instance:

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are supporters of boosting already-huge Pentagon budgets along with continuing U.S. warfare in many forms. Trump likes to pander to voters who don’t want endless wars, but his actual policies as president kept them going. Harris’s glimmers of senatorial interest in scaling back military largesse faded into standard bellicosity. Both candidates beat cold-war drums, with Trump focusing on China rather than Russia.

Progressive ideas, as usual, will be convenient scapegoats for the failures of Democratic Party elites.

The establishment is ever alert to the danger that progressive populism could majorly reduce income inequality and subdue corporate power.

The opposition will be unable to accomplish anything of substance at the federal level and trying........

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