Like a David Brooks column come to life, the Biden campaign pretends to
recapture some past but essential American goodness, which presumably
existed before November 2016. Like Robinson, just when and where would
Joe Biden like to take us? And what was the condition of the American
soul in the first place? American political discourse finds itself lost,
like some washed-up high school quarterback, in the thrill of remembered
triumphs, in some last shred of revanchist glory, in the imagined power
of The Way We Were. How ironic to find Biden’s best ideological
opposition — “Restore the Soul of America” — to the inanity and
ahistoricism of “Make America Great Again” lies in yet another time
trap. Restore what? How poor must our imaginations be to fool ourselves
into believing the temporal fallacy that way back also presents the way
forward.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-white-nostalgia-pandemic/
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