Immigration- and possibly a Wall, and questions about numbers and types of legal immigrants, enforcements of borders, and punishment for illegals.

Middle East- even if the partial modernization of Sunni Islam leads to unlikely Saudi dominance over Shiite Persia — unless there is some miraculous Arab Muslim peace with Israel. (2% likely? Not quite 0 …)

Globalization- issues of free trade vs tariffs vs local jobs.

Climate Change Warming alarmism- unless we’re more clearly in a new Ice Age, where it will be Cooling alarmism. Still with Big Gov’t solutions being offered.

Culture War- the atheist elites and other anti-Christians against Christian values and especially sexual morals.
Abortion – Gay Marriage – the LGBT Queer Agenda to normalize all sexual desires and practices.

College discrimination- against Republicans and Christians will not be solved.

College debt- an issue that will become worse before it becomes better.

Affordable Housing- needed in the nice areas where the best jobs are, but not getting since adding houses makes the area less nice and the nice people now there want more affordable houses, but just NIMBY.

Huge and growing national debts- not just USA, but China, India, the EU; and Japan’s huge 220% of GDP debt isn’t going down.

More publicity of Demographics (it’s destiny!) and the aging of the OECD countries.

There’s not really much talk about what policy makes one a “populist”, but the closest is wanting a real border that punishes illegal immigration.

h/t Powerline commenter at Year in Pictures

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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/today-is-the-157th-anniversary.php

…of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves in the states then in rebellion against federal authority. The Democrats reviled Lincoln at the time, and they have continuously reviled Republican presidents and other politicians right up to the present. Today, as in 1863, conservatives–virtually all of whom are Republicans–want to liberate African-Americans from poverty and dependence through free enterprise. Now, as then, the Democratic Party bitterly resists this independence movement. Just ask Candace Owens.
…
In 1865, a plot among die-hard Democrats resulted in the assassination of President Lincoln. This was the culmination of a vitriolic campaign of hate that the Democratic Party mounted against Lincoln from the time of his entry onto the public stage. Lincoln was such anathema to the Democrats that his election led directly to secession. Having lived through the Reagan administration, I thought I had seen the nearest possible approach to the hate that the Democrats unleashed against President Lincoln.

I was wrong. The Democrats’ hate machine is cranked up to 11, and has been ever since Donald Trump foiled the Democrats’ plan for a Clinton renaissance and a continued march toward socialism. The current impeachment farce is just the latest manifestation of the Democrats’ rule-or-ruin approach to politics.

As we enter the new year, we should all pray that the Democrats’ insane hate campaign does not lead, as it did in 1865, to the assassination of our president.

Will these editors lift a finger, to slow down the rabid hordes teeing off on heroes like Dersh (and, more subtly, on Jonathan Haidt)?
Or, to otherwise help those who, if they had help, would be open to understanding, what the Democratic Party has become?

That’s pretty funny, actually.
(The MSM never—well, almost never—ceases to entertain.)

Anyway, here’s a (related) “new year’s greeting” from Lee Smith—he who refuses to take his eye off the ball and warns us not to, either. (IOW, the bad guys, crafty as ever, are getting cornered and not at all happy about it):
https://spectator.us/crime-progress-russiagate-whistleblowers/
H/T: Powerline blog

A misnomer if there ever was one.

It is precisely “LIBERAL DEMOCRACY”, so called, that has gone off the rails; that is no longer “liberal democracy” but that has become a preening, elitist, utterly corrupt, totally dishonest, conniving, self-interested political mafia that uses the words “liberal democracy” as though it still means what it actually used to mean, and which many believe it still does.

A self-righteous, grossly intolerant, moral crusading mafia….

“Populism”, so called (a very dirty word according to all the “beautiful”, all the “smart”, all the “right” people), is actually an AFFIRMATION of liberal democracy in our current, global “Through-the-Looking-Glass” predicament.

The problem is that many decent people who consider themselves “liberal democrats” don’t truly understand (or wish to understand) what the Democratic Party has become; and they are protected from such knowledge by an equally corrupt media, on the one hand, and on the other, wall-to-wall, 24/7, fanatical, unhinged, but entirely calculated and calibrated demonization of Trump and his supporters (ironically—or maybe not, if Orwell is truly understood—the “liberal democratic project” of the past three—more, actually, with regard to other Republican candidates) years.

Those, such as Dershowitz, who struggle to maintain what used to be understood as firmly liberal credentials who are humiliated, ridiculed, flayed and mutilated by the rabid hordes, which is what “Liberal Democrats”, in their non-stop, righteous indignation and intolerance of other points of view, have allowed themselves to become (with the pernicious assistance of the psycho-SOMA-tic, emotionally hypnotizing opioid known as social, so-called, media; but then enslaving oneself to that is also a personal choice).

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/getting-populism-right.php

“Eatwell and Goodwin think that much of the mainstream analysis/panic over populism is too short-term in its outlook, ignoring (sometimes willfully) what has been building for years. The book debunks a lot of the current myths about populism, and is especially strong in its understanding of the nature and causes of the rising distrust of our institutions. One conclusion: our populist movement is just beginning, and is not merely a short-term reaction to the financial crisis of a decade ago.”

I now have a bit more hope than before, that an anti-SJW backlash is gaining ground, vs. the whole Lefty tantrum vs. DJT and his backers.
At https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/29/nyts_dean_baquet_and_wps_marty_baron_alternative_facts_inside_the_weaponization_of_disinformation.html ,
the WaPo and NYT wheels are quoted as telling NBC that

“we have to do a much better job, I agree with what Marty said, understanding some of the forces that drive people in parts of America…. that maybe are not as powerful in New York or Los Angeles. We have to do a better job understanding why some people support Donald Trump.”

Before this, I was betting that the Lefty elites would continue, to ratchet up the HATE of all supporters of the White Patriarchy (personified by DJT).
In my view, the Republic’s survival hinges on moderate liberals following guys like Dersh, in his defying the drift of this Lefty hate (e.g. in the film No Safe Spaces).
For Baron and Baquet to both imply, that they’ve not been understanding of why some people support DJT, makes me hope that powerful folks, who respect Dersh etc., have been giving these MSM elites a juicy earful!