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Asked by his interviewer, “How do you feel about the year overall,” political humorist Matt Labash responded:
Oh, it’s gone great. If you’re in the chaos‘n’dysfunction business.… I warned of this before the 2024 election, even if the reality on the ground was much worse than I imagined it would be. But at least it’s allowed me to use, over and over again, one of the sweetest phrases in the English language: “I told you so.”
Like Labash, I predicted that 2024 would be the Year of Chaos, particularly starting up around the actual election week toward the end of that year. I won’t quite say, “I told you so” because, as I’ve noted at various points along the way in 2025, no chaos ensued at the end of 2024 over the election. (In fact, the Democrats practically took it in stride, compared to the chaos the Republicans threw up during the election week and beyond in 2020 and into 2021.)
However, it turned out the chaos was only a tiny bit late in arriving because, as soon as Trump was inaugurated it whipped up on steroids. Unlike Labash, I won’t say it was “much worse than I imagined.” It was, in fact, about as exactly as I imagined as any prediction as vague as “chaos” can be. And we can see how true that is as we just look at some of the articles today about the year in review as well as a few that describe where some of the government programs and players that got caught up in the chaotic inferno all ended.
I’m going to start with the biggest player—the US dollar, which got burned more than most saw coming …