According to Zeihan, Democrats greatly improved their performance among the military, business interests, and fiscal conservatives, while the Republicans improved their performance among labor unions and Hispanics. If Obama was George McGovern’s revenge, can we say that Trump is Ross Perot’s and Pat Buchanan’s revenge?

He also estimates it will be another year before the vaccine is publicly available on a serious scale, which means the pandemic and public health orders will continue to be with use, at least to some degree, into 2022, which means COVID-19 will play out along a similar timeline to the Spanish Flu.