Let us finish the job, said Joe Biden in his re-election video. The rest of us, including Biden, could have been forgiven for thinking he had already done that by defeating Donald Trump in 2020. Yet here we are again: two bald men fighting over a comb, as Jorge Luis Borges depicted the British-Argentine war over the Falklands. America is no comb and Trump has plenty of hair. Nor is he certain to be the Republican nominee. But a repeat battle between ageing men would test America’s tolerance.
“让我们完成未竟事业，”乔•拜登(Joe Biden)在他宣布竞选连任的视频中表示。我们其他人，包括拜登本人在内，本来有理由认为，他在2020年已经完成毕生最重要的事业：击败唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)。然而我们再次面对这一局面：两个秃头男子争夺一把梳子，就像已故阿根廷作家豪尔赫•路易斯•博尔赫斯(Jorge Luis Borges)当年在谈到英阿马岛战争时所言。美国当然不是什么梳子，而特朗普还有很多头发。况且他也不一定会成为共和党总统候选人。但这两位老年男子之间的“复赛”将会考验美国人的容忍度。