´Sure enough, their various obsessions, such as reclaiming Soviet ground, or “taking” Cuba, or preserving a now 47-year-old Islamic revolution, trace back to the century in which they came of age. (Donald Trump was a teenager when the Bay of Pigs debacle happened.) It is not axiomatic that an old person is backward-looking. But the average of a large group of them might be expected to skew that way. The spirit of this era is more restorationist than revolutionary. No wonder the news nowadays so often seems a re-enactment of a world that was thought to have passed.‘