America has a conservative establishment. Its formal name is the Democratic party. Whether it be the federal government, universities, welfare or the regulatory state, Democrats fight to preserve the world as it is or was. “America is already great,” liberals cry, which is another way of saying that things were fine until Donald Trump came along. Their lodestar was Joe Biden, who personified nostalgia. Much of the party is now nostalgic for Biden. You have to be imprisoned in old ways of thinking to believe this is how US liberalism will rebound.
美国有一个保守的建制派，其正式名称是民主党。无论是联邦政府、大学、福利还是监管体系，民主党都在为维护现状（或者曾经的现状）而战。自由派人士高呼“美国已经伟大”，换句话说，在唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)登上舞台之前，一切都很美好。他们的指路明灯是乔•拜登(Joe Biden)，他是怀旧情绪的化身。如今，民主党内部有很多人怀念拜登。除非你被旧思维束缚，否则你不会相信这是美国自由主义走向反弹的正道。