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There Is One Important Thing That's Predictable About Our New President

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Would Donald Trump walk away from some real estate deals? Would he fire the current contestant on "The Apprentice?" Would he be successful jumping into a presidential race as a politically raw rookie?

What would he do as president? What would he do as former president? How would he try again? And could he be only the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms?

Perhaps you've already guessed: 

The one predictable thing about Donald Trump is that he is unpredictable.

It bothers some people to no end. But it's been a key to the many successes throughout his careers. 

In this week's audio commentary — predictably — we examine the strength of that trait and what we might expect in the next four years.

This week's Sunday column examined the early deluge of Donald Trump's appointees to his Cabinet and staff. And perhaps more importantly, what that foretells about his intentions in this historic second term.

Can you spell D-I-S-R-U-P-T-E-R?

The most recent audio commentary suggested an early second-term priority for the Trump Administration should be China hacking. 

The communist giant has not been known for skilled and imaginative engineering. So, it has relied on spying and hacking to steal the engineering ideas and plans (and creative works) of other countries, including the United States.

That, however, caused them a serious but delightful problem with their next generation fighter aircraft, which we explain this week.

But now hackers commissioned by the Chinese have taken a new, more ominous tack in stealing information from the West. They are hacking into U.S. infrastructure with an impressive sophistication to determine exactly how the systems work. Not to copy their structure, but to figure out how to make them fail someday, if necessary.

For unexplained but suspicious reasons, Joe Biden took a dangerously passive attitude toward Chinese adversarial moves. Remember last year's giant Chinese spy balloon, the size of two school buses, that Biden allowed to drift over the entire United States for a full week and transmit intelligence back to Beijing?

We're hoping that Trump and his Chinese hawk Secretary of State Marco Rubio take a much more effective stance toward such actions. And perhaps even effectively respond in kind.

From their perches across the country, my RedState colleagues are energetically covering this important — and dangerous — interregnum wrapping up the failed Biden-Harris presidency and leading into the unpredictable new Trump administration.

I recommend checking here and here and here.

The New York Times did some interesting research throughout the long campaign on a Frank Luntz focus group of young voters. The results proved quite promising for the Republican Party — especially Vice President-elect JD Vance — and even more disappointing for the now-defunct Democrat ticket and its befuddled party that was so sure of victory earlier this month.  

Our Nick Arama provides an inside look at how that all came out. 

Just FYI, the losing Democrat ticket has now fallen apart. Tim Walz has returned to Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Frozen Lakes, as governor. And the current vice president, Kamala Harris, is following the example of Joe Biden, who's spent 40 percent of this term on vacation, often in a borrowed home on an ocean island.

Harris and her hubby have just flown off to an island retreat in Hawaii.

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