周三晚上在德克萨斯州，有一段描述特别引起了我的注意。文中细致却又离奇具体地描绘了在民主党执政下那些城市陷入“肮脏、悲惨、贫困与无家可归”状态的惨状：“一旦那种阴郁的氛围弥漫开来，一切就都变得脏乱不堪。街道污秽不堪，商店的门把手也脏得要命。人行道上满是污秽与灰尘。所有东西都变得又脏又有难闻的气味。” 嗯？据我所知，即便对特朗普而言，这种说法也算是前所未闻了。
In Texas on Wednesday night, one passage in particular stuck out to me, with its elaborate and yet oddly specific description of the awfulness of cities sunk into the “squalor, misery, poverty, homelessness” that goes along with Democratic rule: “When the blues get in, everything becomes dirty. The streets are dirty. The doorknobs going into stores are dirty. The sidewalks are filthy, dirty. Everything becomes dirty and has a bad smell.”Huh? That’s a new one, as far as I can tell, even for Trump.
而且特朗普抨击的并不仅仅是那些蓝州的烂摊子。他在演讲中称民主党人是“骗子，简直是地狱般的骗子”，在俄克拉荷马州他说他们是一群共产主义者、儿童残害者和非法移民的拥护者，正要毁掉他和他的支持者所做的一切。总统还列出了一长串这些可怕的国家破坏者：纽约国会议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（一个“糟糕的学生”，捏造了气候变化）；“忘恩负义”的前德克萨斯州议员亨利·库埃拉（曾被特朗普赦免，却拒绝退出民主党转投共和党）；密歇根州参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（“彻底的共产主义者”）；以及“乔治亚的那位”，我猜是指民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫，他“看起来像皮威·赫尔曼”。
And it’s not just those blue-state cesspools that Trump likes to rail against. Democrats, in his speeches, are “cheaters, they cheat like hell,” as he put it in Oklahoma, a rabble of Communists and child mutilators and illegal-immigrant lovers who are going to ruin everything that he and his base have done. The President offered shout-outs to a long list of these terrible nation-wreckers: the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (a “bad student” who made up climate change); the “ungrateful” former Texas congressman Henry Cuellar (who was pardoned by Trump but refused to quit the Democratic Party and become a Republican); the Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (“a total Communist”); the “guy in Georgia,” by which I guess he meant the Democratic senator Jon Ossoff, who “looks like Pee-wee Herman.”’
在内布拉斯加州，他抨击丹·奥斯本，“一个假独立人士”，正在与共和党现任参议员皮特·里克茨竞争参议院席位——特朗普说奥斯本是“激进左翼疯子”，如果当选会“夺走你的枪支”，并且“想让所有人都变性”。但在几乎所有演讲中，特朗普对塔拉里科格外愤怒，或者在圣安东尼奥称他为“民主党共产主义者詹姆斯·塔拉疯子”。
也许特朗普觉得自己在德州参议院选举中背负了责任——如果不是特朗普坚持在共和党初选决选中支持丑闻缠身的帕克森，现任共和党参议员约翰·科尼恩本可能轻松获胜。
In Nebraska, he went after Dan Osborn, “a fake Independent” running for Senate against the Republican incumbent, Pete Ricketts—Osborn is, Trump said, a “radical left lunatic” who will “take your guns away if he gets in” and “who wants to transgender for everybody.”
无论出于何种原因，他似乎特意积攒了不少怨气要发泄在塔拉里科身上，称其为“软弱无能、毫无胆量、自我厌恶且极力推崇跨性别群体的怪胎”，还声称此人会“毁掉我们辛苦建立起来的一切”。
But, in almost all of his speeches, Trump reserved special ire for Talarico, or, as he referred to him in San Antonio, “Dumocrat Communist James Talafreako.”Perhaps Trump feels on the hook for the Texas Senate race, which most likely would have been easily won by the Republican incumbent, John Cornyn, had Trump not insisted on backing the scandal-plagued Paxton in the G.O.P. primary runoff. Whatever the reason, he seems to have saved up extra bile for Talarico, demeaning him as a “weak, gutless, self-hating, transgender-promoting freak show” who threatens to “destroy everything that we’ve built.”
虽然从特朗普口中我并未了解到太多关于塔拉里科对美国共和国构成何种威胁的信息，但有一点值得注意：在多次集会上，总统都对塔拉里科所谓的素食主义大发牢骚，指责他只是为了讨好喜爱吃肉的德克萨斯州选民才吃肉，结果搞得自己“吐得到处都是”。特朗普特别喜欢“吐得到处都是”这个说法，反复加以使用，甚至在塔拉里科并未参与竞选的州也对听众说起此事。
I did not learn from Trump all that much about what nature of threat to the Republic Talarico poses, though I found it notable that, at several rallies, the President took off on rants about Talarico’s alleged veganism, accusing him of eating meat only in order to suck up to the meat-loving Texas electorate and thus causing himself to be “throwing up all over the place.”Trump liked the throwing-up line so much so he said it repeatedly, including to audiences in states where Talarico is not on the ballot.
他在阿拉巴马州说道：“他是个素食主义者，可突然间又跑去参加烧烤聚会。没人告诉你们的是，每次参加完烧烤后，他都会走到帐篷后面，吐得到处都是。”在俄克拉荷马州，他也提到了这种所谓的“呕吐现象”，并称“因为他是个素食主义者，在俄克拉荷马州或德克萨斯州根本不可能靠素食主义者的身份当选”。
“He’s a vegan and all of a sudden he’s going to barbecues,” he said in Alabama. “What they don’t show you is that, after every barbecue, he walks to the back of a tent and he throws up all over the place.”He mentioned the supposed throwing up in Oklahoma, too, “because he’s a vegan, and you can’t get elected as a vegan in Oklahoma or in Texas.”