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.
「讓我們完成未竟事業，」喬•拜登(Joe Biden)在他宣佈競選連任的影片中表示。我們其他人，包括拜登本人在內，本來有理由認爲，他在2020年已經完成畢生最重要的事業：擊敗唐納•川普(Donald Trump)。然而我們再次面對這一局面：兩個禿頭男子爭奪一把梳子，就像已故阿根廷作家豪爾赫•路易斯•博爾赫斯(Jorge Luis Borges)當年在談到英阿馬島戰爭時所言。美國當然不是什麼梳子，而川普還有很多頭髮。況且他也不一定會成爲共和黨總統候選人。但這兩位老年男子之間的「複賽」將會考驗美國人的容忍度。