So Biden continues Trump’s Sinophobic rampage. Yet normal people thought he wouldn’t. How to account for this stupendously stupid expectation every four years, flying in the face of all evidence and experience, that with a new president, things will change? It must be the human weakness called hope, which springs eternal from that entrancing but utterly false view of things, that incurable delusion called optimism. More

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