Yesterday was a post of predictions of long-term events. Today we'll deal with the short-term--what to expect tomorrow, Inauguration Day.
1. Joe Biden's speech will not be particularly memorable. He is not a Lincoln, FDR, JFK, or even an Obama-type orator. There will be no phrases like "the better angels of our nature," "nothing to fear but fear itself," or "ask not what you can do...." (unless he quotes from those, of course). It will, also, I think, not be a laundry list of what he hopes to accomplish; he'll save that for his first State of the Union speech in a few weeks.
2. Someone, somewhere, will do something stupid and/or dangerous in protest...not necessarily in Washington and not even at one of the state capitals. They've telegraphed those and know they will be too well guarded. Where? How about at one of our national monuments? A massive demonstration at Mt. Rushmore? Will the "second Civil War" types decide one of the battlefields of the first one is an appropriate place to wreak havoc--Gettysburg, Antietam, Bull Run?
3. Some GOP representative will immediately file a lawsuit against one or more of the executive orders Biden intends to put in effect tomorrow--most likely anything pertaining to immigration as that is their go-to issue to rile their base.
This time Thursday we'll know how good a prognosticator I am.
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