time warp

Indeed, Americans have been tussling over the time warp for well over a century now.

“I think that Biden is stuck in a much longer-term time warp. He just cannot see things such as… 57 years of occupation, the slaughter in Gaza, except through an Israeli lens,” he says.

Hollywood may be frantically mining race for stories, but in the real world, the issue of racial ambiguity, of being neither Black nor white, seems caught in some retrograde time warp.

“It was an endless time warp of confusion.”

So it's kind of like a time warp.