Call this the Morrissey Chaos Theory: Chaos damages the party in power. It happened in 2020, which I predicted in February 2020, a month before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the US and started a cascading series of chaotic policies and events. The theoretical crisis turned out to be different — I used an economic crisis as a model — but the sequence of events proved me correct:
[Amy] Klobuchar’s appeal in a campaign against Trump would be a return to status quo ante normalcy. If voters become anxiety-ridden about the present state of affairs, they won’t want a revolution in the Bernie Sanders sense, but a nostalgic turn toward a pre-Trump technocracy to rescue the country from chaos. Under those circumstances, Trump’s chaos-agent qualities would play against him, and Democrats would be well advised to nominate an establishment figure who can soothe panic.
That only works if the status…
