Stop Trying to Predict the 2024 Elections

Eric Medlin
5 min readMay 26, 2021

Long-term political predictions drive doomscrolling and clicks. They are not helpful.

Donald Trump with a map of the 2016 presidential election results. Source: CNN

Democrats are, as always, allergic to success. They have just won their first governing trifecta since 2008. That trifecta has led to a significant legislative victory and the possibility for more over the next 18 months. President Joe Biden has led the country through the nadir of the pandemic and is…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites