American Gorbachev

American Gorbachev | n+1:

"The America our new president inherits bears an uncanny resemblance to our old enemy, the Soviet Union—right before it went under...Late-imperial malaise prevails on the home front too. Our new President presides over a recession (if not worse), a dilapidated infrastructure, an aging population, and more numerous environmental catastrophes: wildfires and drought in the Southwest, a longer and more brutal hurricane season along the Gulf Coast and Eastern seaboard, harbingers of greater, unknown changes to come. We didn't have a Chernobyl, but we had Katrina. (Or was it Katarina?)"