There's no room for the politician with a beret anymore.

Some are sure to remember The China Syndrome, the famous James Bridges film, starring Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas. The argument goes from a nuclear accident in which the reactor core melts and supposedly crosses the Earth until it reaches the antipodes: to China, in the case of the United States. It is a hypothesis without scientific consistency, but if I bring it up here is why it has a metaphor of the chain reaction that has ge…