在阿拉巴马州，特朗普再度体验昔日的辉煌时刻（不过这次现场有些空座位）。美国南部深处正是大型MAGA集会的发源地。如今，墨西哥湾沿岸地区的民众对特朗普总统又作何看法呢？
In Alabama, Trump Relives His Glory Days (This Time With Some Empty Seats) The Deep South was the birthplace of the mega MAGA rally. How do people on the Gulf feel about President Trump now?
周五晚间，在中期选举还有五周之际，特朗普总统现身阿拉巴马州莫比尔市，出席了一场竞选集会。他究竟为何远道而来进行这场集会呢？
On Friday night, President Trump turned up in Mobile, Ala., to give a campaign rally five weeks ahead of the midterm elections. What on earth was he doing all the way down there?
“我之所以来到这里，是因为有时候，”他说道，“你必须向那些从一开始就支持你的人表达敬意。”南阿拉巴马大学的室内体育馆内顿时掌声雷动。
“I’m really here because, sometimes,” he said, “you’ve got to pay respect to the people that loved you right from the beginning.”The indoor arena at the University of South Alabama purred.
随着共和党在11月选举中的前景变得愈发黯淡，特朗普也开始全身心投入竞选活动。迄今为止，他的足迹已遍布多个颇具特色的地区。一位共和党总统在铁定支持共和党的阿拉巴马州、得克萨斯州、俄克拉荷马州开展竞选？接下来还会去内布拉斯加州吗？没错，他周一就会前往那里。
As Republican prospects for November have darkened, Mr. Trump has started to really throw himself into the campaign trail. So far, that trail has led him to some interesting destinations. A Republican president, campaigning in ruby-red Alabama? Texas? Oklahoma? What’s next, Nebraska? Yes, actually, that is where he will be on Monday.
不过，莫比尔在特朗普的传奇经历中占据着极为特殊的地位。从某种意义上来说，这里正是MAGA集会的发源地——这种巡回集会后来也成为了此后十年美国国内政治的标志性符号。
Mobile occupies a mythic place in Trump lore, though. This is, in some sense, the birthplace of the MAGA rally, that traveling roadshow of Mr. Trump’s that would come to define the next decade of national political life in America.
“不知道大家是否了解，这一切其实都是从这里开始的，”周五一登上舞台，特朗普便向台下听众说道。
“I don’t know if you know. It sort of all began here,” Mr. Trump reminded his audience as soon as he took the stage Friday.
2015年8月他首次造访此地时，其政治崛起之路才刚刚起步。当时第一次共和党初选辩论刚结束不久，他仍在与马尔科·鲁比奥、杰布·布什以及泰德·克鲁兹展开激烈角逐，而多数新闻媒体也仅仅把他当作一时的政治热潮罢了。
When he came here in August 2015, his rise had only just begun. It was shortly after the first Republican primary debate. He was still duking it out against Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz, and still being treated by much of the news media as little more than a tulip craze.