Politico had an unusual homework assignment for a number of futurists, political analysts, and prognosticators. It was to put on their Nostradamus caps to predict what, if any, Black Swan events could affect the 2024 presidential election. The results ranged from the somewhat reasonable to the downright bizarre as you can see in Friday’s “The Unpredictable But Entirely Possible Events That Could Throw 2024 Into Turmoil.”
One of the assignees was the melodramatic Marquette University political science professor, Julia Azari, who rather than write a simple prediction interpreted her job as writing a novel starting with the very Hemingwayisque title of her absurdly specific thus unintentionally hilarious prognostication, “Death at a Trump rally.”
On Oct. 19, a fight breaks out at a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida. A group of five white men in their early 50s…
