Mitt Romney loses the 2012 presidential election. Runs for Senate and wins in 2018. Votes to impeach his own party's president in 2020. Becomes one of the most powerful people in America in 2021. Quite an arc!
The Senate is now tied 50-50, so a lot of stuff will come down to razor-thin votes that hinge on moderate lawmakers. Romney is one of the few swing-voting Republicans, and will thus exercise outsized power in the coming Congress, especially if Biden wants bipartisan involvement. https://twitter.com/redmond_BDTW/status/1346686392852647936
You might ask, who could have possibly predicted that Romney would become one of the most consequential lawmakers in Congress? Well: https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1316037767781126146
If you'd like to see some of my other fun predictions from 2020, you might like my newsletter: https://yair.substack.com/p/what-i-got-right-and-wrong-in-2020
What I Got Right and Wrong in 2020

But mostly what I got right, because 2020 was bad enough as it is, so take your wins where you can get them

https://yair.substack.com/p/what-i-got-right-and-wrong-in-2020
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