TPM posted an article in 2019 that is a bit too eerie and also sadly another confirmation of "history repeats itelf": A Trump 1950s TV Episode Truth Movement?. Excerpts:
A conman named Trump comes to a town and gets everyone panicked that the world is about to end unless they agree to let him build a wall that will save them.

Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was already a figure of some notoriety, at least in the greater New York region and actually beyond. Though he was a successful businessman and real estate investor, he also had a reputation as a huckster and a racist from New York to Washington, DC and to a degree nationwide.

No less a figure than Woody Guthrie, who leased one of Fred Trump’s Beach Haven apartments from 1950 to 1952, wrote or wrote new lyrics for a number of songs attacking Trump. Here’s one example.

I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project ….

Fred Trump had also figured prominently in 1954 Senate hearings into profiteering off federal subsidies designed to support affordable housing for returning World War II veterans.
1. Climate will worsen and billions will be displaced and famished as ocean major currents and melting polar caps severely alter the shorelines. The global economy will move in reverse, order will descend into chaos and most states will collapse into a new global dark age of privateers and lawlessness. Nuclear war and fallout will be very likely. A coup de grâce will be delivered by an extinction-level meteor or two.
2. Counter-intuitively, as humanity tech/medical progress advances, the gene pool will keep getting diluted with more knuckle-draggers and subsistent survivors per capita who will procreate unimpeded by their general stupidity or predictably boring lives and much faster than the dwindling creative minority. Population will quickly grow towards resource unsustainability and will collapse precipitously. Pandemics ought to untilt the imbalance somewhat, but most likely it won't be enough. Humanity will pollute and slowly kill Gaia from both ends: the psychopathic autocrats and theocrats at one end (e.g. China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia) and the Dunning-Kruger populist "democracies" at the other (e.g. USA, UK, Canada, Oz, NZ first, and shortly after the increasingly more volatile Western democracies as they spiral toward self-destruction from over-exuberant and misguided fervour at both ends of the political spectrum).

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