President Trump celebrates with Congressional Republican on the South Lawn of the White House. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Politico: The Worst Political Predictions of 2017
Spoiler alert: Everybody was wrong.
A year ago at this time, the world was falling apart. That, or on the verge of being saved. Or maybe something in between; it depended on whom you asked.
The uncertainty of that moment was the natural heir of all the surprises of 2016: the Brexit vote in favor of leaving the European Union, the election of Donald Trump, the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the World Series victory of the Chicago Cubs, and so on.
From that vantage point, predictions about the year we’re now finishing—a time that would mark the end of the Obama era, the first year of the Trump presidency, and a rolling elite identity crisis that has reached every corner of the globe—seemed even more uncertain than usual.
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