The race for the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination has so far been notable mostly for the candidates’ sniping, hyperbole, and self-righteous indignation, but there has been a shared concern for the prospects of the twenty-first century. In a barb seemingly aimed at both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Nikki Haley said, “We won’t win the fight for the twenty-first century if we keep trusting politicians from the twentieth century.” Vivek Ramaswamy, whose fealty to Trump is nearly clerical, hailed him as “the best President of the twenty-first century,” even though Trump leads the three other men elected since 2000 in impeachments by a score of two to zero. Ron DeSantis posted on X, “The 21st century needs to be an American century. We cannot let it be a Chinese century.”…
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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 22, 2024