If the Biden Restoration just tries to restore Washington and foreign affairs to the way it was in November 2016 it will fail comprehensively. The old system was collapsing even as Hillary strode confidently toward her accession. It was the Deplorable’s awareness of the ancien regime’s impending collapse of which the aristocracy was blissfully unaware that led to the election of Donald Trump.
Tallyrand said of the Bourbons while they were out of power that “they have learnt nothing, and forgotten nothing”. That exactly describes the Biden Restoration so far. The world has changed. Only the establishment illusions are the same.