The week when the transition team of President-elect Donald Trump named a TV journalist as defence secretary and revealed that the world’s richest man would be heading up a new department of governmental efficiency felt like a harbinger of regime change. Joe Biden was hailed in 2020 by relieved liberals as a course correction after the first Trump presidency. He now looks less like the upholder of America’s eternal mission to spread freedom around the globe, and more like the end of its ancien régime.
當選總統唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的過渡團隊任命一位電視記者為國防部長,并透露世界首富將領導一個新的政府效率部門的那一周,感覺像是政權更迭的前兆。2020年,喬?拜登(Joe Biden)被如釋重負的自由派譽為特朗普第一個總統任期之后的方向修正。他現在看起來不像是美國在全球傳播自由的永恒使命的支持者,而更像是其舊制度的終結。