I actually think the future is very easy to predict. One: the Supreme Court delays any decision regarding Trump's claim he is forever immune to prosecution for any and all criminal acts he's committed and will go on to commit, thus ensuring there's no impediment to Trump returning to the White House in January 2025. Two: within 2 years of the sniveling orange moron waddling back into the White House, Russia invades Latvia and China invades Taiwan. In both cases, Trump argues that US interests are "best" served by remaining inert. Three: when Russia invades Latvia, no European NATO member is capable of anything other than a brief token response. This total failure results in European nations agreeing to pay a latter-day equivalent of Danegeld (e.g. protection money) and are required to re-integrate their economies into that of Mother Russia. Four: the global system of trade collapses, leading to tens of millions of job losses across the OECD, leading to more popularism, more isolationalism, and more blame-the-neighborism. Ultimately this leads to WWIII, but that takes longer than most people think.

This could all be prevented in the short term by some timely patriotic executions, and in the much longer term by getting rid of representative democracy and replacing it with a qualification-based approach to governance. As neither of this things will happen, we're going to continue to slide headlong into the next Age of Tyrants, which may last a very long time indeed.