儿子，这位长期担任亚特兰大电台主持人的极端保守派，刚刚发表了一通长篇大论，把民主党和共和党都骂了个遍。
son, the longtime, ultraconservative Atlanta radio host, just unloaded a screed that whacked both Democrats and Republicans.
“双方都端出一个烂三明治般的候选人，指着对面那位的烂三明治，坚称你必须吃他们这份，因为另一份更烂。”顺着这个烹饪比喻说下去，这话让我深有感触，因为我早就觉得国家政治越来越像一锅虚伪的大杂烩。
"Both sides serve up a crap sandwich of a candidate, point across the aisle at the other side’s crap sandwich, and insist you have to eat theirs because the other one is worse." In keeping with the culinary metaphor, this struck me because I've long felt that national politics has increasingly become a stew of hypocrisy.
看着伊丽莎白·沃伦和伯尼·桑德斯为格雷厄姆·普拉特纳背书，真是令人作呕。这位缅因州参议院候选人身上有纳粹纹身，古怪至极。你心里清楚，要是他是个共和党人，自由派早就把他撕碎了。等到普拉特纳的前女友指控他强奸的消息传出后，他们和其他民主党人才终于跳下了这趟车。
To watch Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders endorse Graham Platner, the exceedingly weird Maine Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo, was stomach-turning. You just know the liberal wing would have savaged him if he was a Republican. They and other Dems finally jumped off the bandwagon when news emerged that Platner's former girlfriend alleged that he had raped her.
尽管针对北卡罗来纳州众议员查克·爱德华兹的指控不断增多，称他营造了敌对的工作环境并实施性骚扰，共和党人起初仍支持他。
TRUMP TO MEET WITH MAMDANI IN NEW YORK AMID HIGH-STAKES MIDTERM PUSH Republicans were behind North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards despite mounting allegations that he had fostered a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment.
但随后，众议院道德委员会呼吁对他进行谴责，原因是其对两名女性工作人员的不当行为。这位国会议员向她们狂送礼物（如果你想知道的话：总价值超过1000美元的珠宝、名牌手袋、枪支、鞋子、鲜花、一台笔记本电脑和手机、KitchenAid搅拌机、扫地机器人、度假旅行、演出门票，以及一对一的晚餐）。
But then the House ethics committee called for his censure for inappropriate actions toward two female staffers. The congressman showered them with gifts (jewelry totaling over $1,000, designer purses, guns, shoes, flowers, a laptop and cell phone, KitchenAid mixer, robotic vacuums, vacations, tickets to performances, and one-on-one dinners, if you must know). His fellow North Carolina lawmaker, Sen. Ted Budd, then urged Edwards to bow out of the race, and the congressman quickly complied.
他的北卡罗来纳州同僚、参议员特德·巴德随后敦促爱德华兹退出竞选，这位国会议员很快照办了。
"Cycle after cycle," Erickson says, "we never get better candidates. We get more corrupt and more terrible ones, and we are told once again that we must vote for them or the republic will fall...
埃里克森说：“一个又一个周期，我们从来没有找到更好的候选人。我们得到了更多腐败、更可怕的人，我们再次被告知，我们必须投票给他们，否则共和国就会垮台……末日预言只是各政党欺骗选民的方式，让他们为他们喜欢的变态行为捏住鼻子。“如果你看看今年竞选活动中的世界末日言论，那无疑是正确的。一切都取决于你的名字后面是D还是R。这是一个选择性愤怒的大师班，如果你的目标转换政党，你会立即改变你的立场。
The doomsday prophecies are simply how the parties dupe voters into holding their noses for their preferred perversions." If you look at the apocalyptic rhetoric in this year's campaigns, that's undoubtedly true. Everything depends on whether you have a D or R after your name.
现在空气中弥漫着如此多的愤怒--战争、通货膨胀、物价飞涨--自由主义者正在妖魔化保守主义者，反之亦然。社交媒体经常成为纯粹仇恨的论坛。我将让你来决定哪一方更糟糕，或者你是否属于“两全其美”阵营。
It's a master class in selective outrage, and if your target switched parties, you'd immediately change your stance. There is so much anger in the air right now–with war, inflation, soaring prices–that liberals are demonizing conservatives and vice versa. Social media has often become a forum for sheer hatred. I'll leave it to you to decide which side is worse, or whether you're in the pox-on-both-houses camp.
两党之间存在巨大的政策差异，但大多数选民并没有认真研究这一点。他们评估候选人的性格。
There are huge policy differences between the two parties, but most voters don't study that intently. They size up the candidates' character.
如果他们幻想破灭，许多人很可能会呆在家里。投票率在中期选举中至关重要。
If they are disillusioned, there's a good chance that many will just stay home. And turnout is crucial in a midterm election.
尽管公开解雇，为什么特朗普和他的团队私下里对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦丑闻着迷在蓝色浪潮的预测中--尽管共和党拥有更大的战争资金--资深政治分析师查理·库克这样评价独立选民：“他们往往非常善变。他们阅读、观看和收听新闻的次数比游击队员少。他们往往会得到买家的悔恨，并攻击两年前投票给的任何人。“曾经被视为边缘人物的极端主义候选人变得更加普遍，尤其是在赢得初选的民主党社会主义者中。
DESPITE PUBLIC DISMISSALS, WHY TRUMP AND HIS TEAM WERE PRIVATELY OBSESSED WITH THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN SCANDAL Amid the predictions of a blue wave – despite the fact that the GOP has a much bigger war chest – veteran political analyst Charlie Cook says this about independent voters: "They tend to be very fickle. They read, watch, and listen to the news less than partisans. They tend to get buyer’s remorse and turn on whoever they voted for two years earlier."
密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·赛义德上个月对袭击犹太教堂的恐怖分子发表同情言论后不得不道歉。他还与极左翼主播哈桑·派克一起竞选，后者表示美国“应得的9/11”。“‘破坏美国的生活方式’：埃尔-赛义德的政治轨道复杂地努力缓和他的形象在纽约社会主义市长佐兰·马姆达尼的支持下获胜的达里亚利察·阿维拉·切瓦利埃称乔·拜登为“强奸犯”，希望废除警察和监狱，并因帮助接管哥伦比亚汉密尔顿大厅而被捕。另一方面，德克萨斯州共和党人肯·帕克斯顿被本党弹劾。
Extremist candidates, once deemed fringe figures, have become more common, especially among the Democratic socialists who are winning primaries. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, had to apologize last month after making sympathetic comments about a terrorist who attacked a synagogue. He's also campaigned with far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who's said America "deserved 9/11." ‘DESTROYING THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE’: EL-SAYED’S POLITICAL ORBIT COMPLICATES EFFORT TO MODERATE HIS IMAGE Darializa Avila Chevalier, who won with the backing of New York’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has called Joe Biden a "rapist," has wanted police and prisons abolished, and was arrested for helping take over Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. On the other side, Texas Republican Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party.
乔治·HW总统的日子已经一去不复返了布什认为他必须为称比尔·克林顿和阿尔·戈尔为“这两个笨蛋”道歉。“在当今有毒的气氛中，埃里克·埃里克森说他因自己的立场而受到威胁和骚扰。现在很难为我们的政治文化感到自豪。但我不认为它会回到过去的时代，当时罗纳德·里根和蒂普·奥尼尔白天打架，下班后一起喝一杯。
Gone are the days when President George H.W. Bush felt he had to apologize for calling Bill Clinton and Al Gore "these two bozos." In today’s toxic atmosphere, Erick Erickson says he's been threatened and harassed for his stances. It's hard to feel proud of our political culture right now. But I don't see it ever changing back to the bygone era when Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill would battle by day and share a drink after work.