Dark Horse Predictions for 2026! Is Kash Patel on Borrowed Time?
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🗓️ 2 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Tim Miller from the bulwark, here with my 2026 prediction. Last year in 2025, I predicted that Donald Trump would have a health event. Just because that felt like the right thing. It just felt like what we deserved. This old man that like survived through the campaign would have a health event in 2025. He didn't, really. I mean, we've seen his hands looking very Queen Elizabeth-esque. And so I'm sticking |
| 0:21.4 | with it for 2026. We're due. Donald Trump's due to have a health event. My new predictions, |
| 0:27.1 | one would be that I do believe that Donald Trump's expansionist vision of the world will come |
| 0:34.6 | into place, whether that is with troops on the ground of Venezuela or actual |
| 0:37.7 | action in Greenland or elsewhere, it feels like he's ready to change the narrative by, you |
| 0:44.0 | know, bringing back the Monroe Doctrine here in this country. |
| 0:48.0 | So we'll see that. |
| 0:49.0 | My sad prediction for the Democrat says it doesn't feel to me like the Democrats are doing the things they need to do to |
| 0:55.4 | maximize the win in the midterms. I'm feeling like we're going to see a Democratic win in the |
| 1:00.4 | midterm, so it won't be the wave needed to take the Senate. I hope to be wrong about that, |
| 1:05.5 | and I hope things change in the coming months, but that's my sense for now. |
| 1:08.7 | Last year when we did one of these things, I predicted |
| 1:10.8 | that 2025 was going to be a year of more MAGA infighting than expected. I think that that |
| 1:16.4 | essentially came true. My prediction for 2026 is a little bit the same, a little bit different. |
| 1:21.1 | I think 2026 is the year that MAGA is going to have its big showdown over what comes next. |
| 1:28.3 | And this is happening earlier than I expected. |
| 1:30.6 | I think my initial guess going into this year would be that we would get this big fight at the end of Donald Trump's second term. |
| 1:37.9 | But as you look around now, these fights are bursting out into the open, kind of all over the place in a way that Trump |
| 1:44.2 | himself is not only not really paying attention to, but seems kind of uninterested in. |
| 1:48.8 | And for the guy who has wielded this amazing personal power over what is and is not acceptable |
| 1:55.7 | in the Republican Party for all this time, it seemed likely, it would be as he shuffled off the stage, |
| 2:02.5 | that that would create the power vacuum for these fights to exist. But because he just sort of |
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