Prediction 6 – Trump Indicted
Again the verdict must be - not yet. All of the arguments set out last year remain valid. The net is tightening around Trump's associates in the US, and globally. Bannon has been indicted, Christopher Steele's dossier has been published, and so on.
One factor that has slowed progress is the incompetence and timidity of Biden, which is also resulting in weakness politically for the Democrats as they approach next year's midterm elections. Biden's incompetence is only outdone by the similar opportunist idiocy of Starmer in Britain, as conservative social-democracy continues to focus on the limited threat to its Left, as against the very real, clear and present danger on its Right. That also shows the disaster that would flow from the kind of Popular Frontist politics proposed by Paul Mason, last year, which called for the Left to politically disarm itself in search of a meaningless alliance with those forces of conservative social-democracy.
The Left will, of course, fight alongside the centre against any immediate threat from the Right, but we will do so under our own banner, not that of alien class forces, and any such fight first requires that the centre is itself prepared to fight those to its Right, and not to continually seek to appease them, as both Biden and Starmer have done, including by adopting large swathes of the ideological programme of reactionary nationalism.
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