唐纳德·特朗普及其陷入困境的共和党正在中期选举前加大煽动性种族主义言论的力度，试图转移人们对其失误的注意力并维持政治控制。
Donald Trump and his desperate Republican Party are leaning in to bigoted invective ahead of the midterm elections as they try to distract from their failings and maintain political control.
总统被指责试图挑起“种族战争”，包括他最近敦促明尼苏达州居民“反击”索马里移民。而很少有人能像纽约州共和党州长候选人布鲁斯·布拉克曼那样体现使用种族主义恐吓策略。
The president has been accused of attempting to stoke a “race war,” including his recent imploring of Minnesotans to“fight back” against Somali immigrants And few other people embody the use of bigoted scare tactics quite like New York’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Bruce Blakeman.
布拉克曼最近曾称纽约州州长为“希贾布·霍楚尔”，因组建一支被比作三K党和纳粹冲锋队的武装平民民兵而受到批评。作为犹太人的布拉克曼表示，该民兵可能有助于平息“骚乱”。周一，《纽约时报》报道了他在一次闭门会议上对哈西迪犹太领袖发表的言论，这些言论以另一种方式呼应了三K党——内容涉及一段关于强奸的论战。
Blakeman, who recently referred to New York’s governor as“Hijab Hochul,” has faced criticism for standing up an armed civilian militia that has been compared to the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi brownshirts an assemblage that Blakeman, who is Jewish, has said could help put down “a riot.”And on Monday, The New York Times reported on comments he made to Hasidic leaders in a closed-door meeting that echoed the klan in another way, by featuring a diatribe involving rape.
据《纽约时报》获得的音频摘录（此前未被报道），布拉克曼在会上说道：“如果这里发生骚乱，如果他们烧毁叶希瓦和你的犹太会堂，烧毁你的房子并强奸你的女性，你认为佐兰·曼丹尼会阻止他们吗？”
Per the Times“If there is rioting here, if they’re burning down the yeshivas and your shuls, and burning down your house and raping your women, you think Zohran Mamdani is going to stop them?” he said in the meeting, according to audio excerpts obtained by The New York Times, which have not previously been reported.
他接着补充道：“凯西·霍楚尔没有胆量这样做。”然后他提到了1991年布鲁克林皇冠高地骚乱。“我们在戴维·丁金斯担任市长时看到皇冠高地发生了这种情况。相比可能发生的事情，这算是小事，”他说。《时报》报道称，布拉克曼并未否认这些录音的真实性。
“Kathy Hochul doesn’t have the backbone to do it,” he added. He then referred to the 1991 Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn. “We saw this happen in Crown Heights when Dave Dinkins was mayor. It was minor compared to what could happen,” he said. The Times reported that Blakeman did not dispute the veracity of the recordings.
这种假设性论调白人至上主义者已使用了几个世纪，用来妖魔化黑人和棕色人种。例如，1915年电影《一个国家的诞生》赞美了三K党，其中黑人男子强奸白人女性的威胁成为核心情节。
These kinds of hypotheticals have been used by white supremacists to demonize Black and brown people for centuries. For example, in the 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation,” which glorified the klan, the threat of a Black man raping a white woman served as a central plot point.
看起来很清楚，这种毫无根据的断言正被用来激发共和党的基本盘，因为民意调查显示，随着中期选举仅剩三周，该党正因选民热情不足而陷入困境。
It seems clear that such baseless assertions are being used to animate the GOP’s base as polls suggest the party is suffering from a lack of voter enthusiasm with the midterms just three weeks away.
如果布莱克曼真的关心骚乱，他就不会支持特朗普，因为特朗普煽动了一场致命的暴乱企图，随后又赦免了参与暴乱的人——其中一些人后来被定罪为性犯罪。如果他真的关心性侵犯，他就不会支持一个被认定需对性侵犯承担民事责任，且试图淡化爱泼斯坦文件的人。这种利用偏激仇恨言论来激发共和党选民的做法——虽然无疑会冒犯被污蔑的黑人和棕色人种——也应在个人层面上冒犯白人美国人。
Because if Blakeman cared about riots, he wouldn’t be supporting Trump, who fueled a deadly insurrection attempt and then pardoned the rioters who waged it‚ some of whom have since been convicted of sex crimes And if he truly cared about sexual assault, he wouldn’t be supporting someone who has been found civilly liable for sexual assault and has sought to downplay Epstein files Such efforts to enliven Republican voters with bigoted vitriol — while certainly offensive to the Black and brown people being maligned — ought to also offend white Americans on a personal level.
这凸显了特朗普及其盟友对其支持者智力的不尊重，并假设——无论正确与否——MAGA基本盘可以通过安抚种族主义心态的谎言和错误信息轻易被操纵。
They underscore the lack of respect Trump and his allies have for their supporters’ intelligence and presume, rightly or wrongly, that the MAGA base can be easily manipulated with lies and misinformation that soothe the racist psyche.
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