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Those choices will arrive faster for Europe given its sclerotic economic growth, but they could also hit the U.S. if economic growth disappoints.

It generates societal wealth by breaking down a sclerotic status quo and bringing better living standards.

More broadly, his fresh approach to the Middle East rejected decades of sclerotic diplomacy focused singularly on Palestinian statehood, embraced an emerging Sunni coalition against Iran and made possible the historic Abraham Accords.

Kennedy’s pet agenda remains at wild odds with a conservative agenda to dismantle regulatory hurdles to drug innovation, or to reform sclerotic programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

That his mild reforms had such positive results is more of a testament to how sclerotic France was before he took office than to the Mr. Macron’s ambitions or accomplishments.