如今听总统在集会上演讲，简直是似曾相识与不知所云的混合体，但他持续了十年的分裂大业依然反常且危险。本文最初发表于周三出版的《特朗普乐园一周间》。唐纳德·特朗普的竞选集会可能会非常单调。非常单调。
Listening to the president at a rally these days is a mix of deja vu and word salad, but his decade-long project of division remains abnormal and dangerous This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. every Wednesday Donald Trump’s campaign rallies can be repetitive. Very repetitive.
他自称为引领“最伟大”经济体内“最伟大”运动的“最伟大”总统。他抨击“民主党人”对儿童实施“跨性别残害”。他痛骂“假新闻”并重炒选举谎言。他将非法移民描述为“入侵”，并朗诵了那首诗《蛇》。
He calls himself the “greatest” president leading the “greatest” movement inside the “greatest” economy. He rails against “Dumocrats” for the “transgender mutilization” of children. He lambasts the “fake news” and reheats election lies. He describes illegal immigration as an “invasion” and recites the poem The Snake.
如果我们都像是被慢慢煮熟的青蛙，那我们现在已经到了变成焦黑蟾蜍的阶段。
If we were all frogs being slowly boiled alive, we’ve now reached the stage of blackened toad.
经过十年的洗礼，曾经会引发愤怒的总统言论现在只能换来耸耸肩。我们已经不再感到震惊了。我们原本以为是这样的。
After a decade of this, presidential utterances that would once have caused outrage are met with a shrug. We are no longer shockable. Or so we thought.