I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. The UC Irvine historian took to the L.A. Times’ op-ed page to predict that our national nightmare will soon come to an end because Trump will have the worst year of his life in 2020. Newsletter Get our weekly Opinion newsletter SubscribeAdvertisementThat is precisely what makes it so unsettling. More worrisome is this thought: Whereas Trump entered 2016 as the second-most likely American to become president, he begins 2020 as the incumbent and therefore the most likely American to be inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2021. L.A. TimesAs always, thank you for reading, and please suggest improvements to this newsletter by contacting me at paul.thornton@latimes.com.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 04, 2020 12:00 UTC