You do not need to be over 50 to see today’s parallels with the US of the 1970s. That decade offers an instantly recognisable meme of rising inflation, political drift, spiralling crime and ominous geopolitics. Nor do you need to equate Joe Biden with the hapless Jimmy Carter, whose presidency deserves higher marks than history has given it. There is no Ronald Reagan on the sidelines. After Biden comes the deluge of a resurgent Donald Trump, or a kindred figure. Biden’s goal must be to avoid a Cartesian fate.
你不需要年过五十，就能看出如今的美国与1970年代的相似之处。那个年代拥有当下很熟悉的迷因：通胀上升、政治变迁、犯罪率激增和不祥的地缘政治。你也不需要将乔•拜登(Joe Biden)与倒霉的吉米•卡特(Jimmy Carter)相提并论，历史对后者任内功过的评价太低了。现在在一旁等候的不是罗纳德•里根(Ronald Reagan)。拜登之后会是东山再起的唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)——或是一个类似人物——掀起的浪潮。拜登的目标必须是避免卡特的命运。
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