Is the United States in a Chevalier de Panat moment?
It was the obscure French nobleman who said that the Bourbons have learned nothing and forgotten nothing – a remark from the 19th century that has lived through the decades and that has eerie resonance for our own time here in the 21st century. Surely Joe Biden, 81 years old, and Donald Trump, 77, have been around long enough to have learned mani…