backward-looking

By its very nature the justice system is glacial, methodical, punctilious, and backward-looking in ways that make keeping up with the well-resourced, wealthy career criminal supremely challenging.

Academy is, in a sense, backward-looking.

Trump is offering voters a vision of the future based on his backward-looking, dystopian interpretation of America.

Academy is, in a sense, backward-looking.

Biden, though, is trying to put a forward-looking slant on the backward-looking question, as he aims to keep the contrast with Trump central to his reelection campaign.