We predict the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Even though the Talmud says that after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70, only fools prophesy, we know a winner when we see one.
The winner is the person who has divided this country and not only that, who relishes in the polarization and the damage to our body politic.
The winner is the person who has been at this for a long time, with a track record that is impossible to deny.
The winner is the person who doesn’t really need to be shaped by the more extreme elements of his political following. A non-rose-colored view of his record in politics speaks for itself.
The winner is a person who does his best to throw away American norms that a lot of leading thinkers and politicians have worked very hard to put in place.
The winner is the person who enjoys strong support from many people who say they don’t admire him personally, but stick by him anyway due to what they see as his indispensable role at a critical moment in world history and in the history of the country. They regard his contributions to the country and the potential he has to make many more major contributions as much more important than his consistency or credibility.
The winner is the person who is chameleon-like when he thinks he needs to be, and it doesn’t seem to deter his followers at all.
The winner is the person with a background that a lot of people thought could never lead to his political success on the presidential level, but boy were they wrong.
The winner is a person who has the long view, who thinks he can reshape American politics for a long time to come, and he may be right.
The person is very adept at communication; no question, he gets his message out the way he wants.
The person has done a lot of good for Israel, but has also made a big mistake in the Middle East. The person has been a strong supporter of Israel’s military might, but with regard to a certain region close to Israel, the person has acted in a way damaging to Israel.
Meanwhile, the person has rabbinical support and even personal relationships with a number of rabbis.
The reason we are sure that this person is going to win is because he has already won. By that we mean that he has already had a major impact on this country that, from our point of view at least, is not positive — and, he has gotten away with it. Nothing succeeds like success, they say, and this person has certainly been successful.
A lot of people — politicians both local and national, as well as common folk — have worked hard to defeat this person, but from our point of view at least, all of these people have not succeeded, are not succeeding, and will not succeed.
There is kind of a mad genius about this person — like, he was always there, always prominent, always in the headlines, sometimes positively, sometimes negatively, always in a way that put us off, and as far as the highest political level is concerned — as far as American presidential politics is concerned — he sort of came from behind, notwithstanding his long record and undeniable prominence. You — or at least we — just wouldn’t expect this person to be the winner of an American presidential election. But no doubt, he is the winner.
He has worked hard at it. He has his own way of doing things. Usually you see him but sometimes you don’t, and he definitely is going to be the winner. We know it. We are predicting it. Oh, by the way, his name is Vladimir Putin.
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