Joe Biden’s farewell speech, rather than a must-watch for the politically exhausted, seemed to be the last act of an old actor. This 82-year-old patriarch, whose supposed memoir was to be the beginning, instead became the last alarm for the American democracy, his own figure hinting at the crisis. The mention of ‘oligarchy’ seems to signal a democratic emergency, yet he himself becomes a symptom of it. His cabinet, the richest in history, isn’t a讽刺 of the elite he claimed to oppose? His political achievements were overshadowed by the shadow of inflation, and his ‘legacy’ may be the story of an elder who ‘once’ saved the nation, but due to an excessive attachment to power, opened the door for Trump’s return.
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