2019: Through a Glass Darkly

Hmmm, much to my surprise I see that I made no predictions for 2018, as is my custom to do each year between Christmas and New Years.  I assume that I simply got too busy at the time and forgot.  In any event here are predictions for the coming year.

1. The Democrats will impeach Trump in the House.  After the Mueller report is released I think the Democrats will be under enormous pressure from their Leftist base to proceed with impeachment in the House.  They will have more than enough votes to do so, and I suspect they will want to get it out of the way before 2020.
2. The Senate will refuse to convict.  It takes two-thirds of the Senate to convict and the Democrats have 47 votes, assuming they can keep all their Senators in line.  Even with a few Republican defectors they will be nowhere near the 67 votes needed.
3. Gridlock will be King.  The country voted for divided government and that is what we will have.  Legislative achievements will be few and that will probably be a good thing.
4. Trump will start building his wall.  No way will Trump go into 2020 without making a start on the wall, and by hook or crook he will do so.  There will be legal challenges galore and tweet    storms aplenty, in short, business as usual during the Trump administration.
5.  Trump will get one, and maybe two more, appointments to the Supreme Court and the Left will have a collective meltdown.
6.  The Church will be engulfed in scandals, and there will be a major effort calling on the Pope to resign.  He will not of course.
7.  The Chicago Cubs will not win the world series.
8.  A major miracle will receive massive news coverage.
9.  Trump will once again prove the truth of the adage that it is smarter to be lucky than it is lucky to be smart.
10.  McClarey will be wrong on some of his predictions.