The Friday night before the election, walking to a table in a restaurant, I stopped to say hello to a lady I’ve known for years, and she asked, Well, tell me – what’s going to happen Tuesday? That was the question everyone was asking that week but, of course, there was no answer – so I said, The Lord hasn’t told us that yet.

Since the election everyone has been asking: What’s going to happen in the next Presidential election? And, of course, there’s no answer to that question either.

But with the caveat that much of what we see every day between sunrise and sunset is ambiguous, we can see the beginnings of the next Presidential campaign and its roots in the past: Before the 2016 election Trump was unpopular and won because Hillary was more unpopular. Trump’s still unpopular so, to win, he needs another unpopular opponent.

And, for Democrats, that’s a dilemma: Because the candidates – from Bernie to Cory to Elizabeth Warren – who’re most likely to win the Democratic nomination are also the candidates most likely to be less popular than Trump.

When bad goes to worse in a fallen world that’s one of the consequences: A plague of Hobson’s Choices.