但现在正有人试图重新定义该运动所包含的群体及其代表的立场。随着中期选举的临近，我们听到很多关于让美国再次伟大（MAGA）联盟内部出现“分裂”的说法，正是这个联盟让唐纳德·特朗普在2024年当选为美国总统。我对“让美国再次伟大”运动所遭遇的悲剧有着略有不同的理解：它不是一场分裂，而是该联盟中最优秀的成员拒绝放弃我们在彼此之间形成的团结。
But there is an attempt to redefine who the movement includes and what it stands for. As the midterm elections near, we are hearing a lot about a “split” within the Make America Great Again (MAGA) coalition, which got Donald Trump elected United States president in 2024. I understand the tragedy of MAGA a little differently: not as a split, but as a refusal by the best members of that coalition to abandon the solidarity we’ve formed between us.
我有幸在2024年协助凝聚了这个联盟。它由传统上互相对立的群体组成：社会保守派、反堕胎人士、虔诚的基督徒、虔诚的穆斯林、虔诚的贵格会教徒、对现状不满的左翼人士、年轻的首次投票者——所有这些人都团结在一位共和党候选人身后。
I had the privilege of helping bring this coalition together in 2024. It was a collection of groupings traditionally pitted against each other: social conservatives, pro-lifers, devout Christians, devout Muslims, devout Quakers, disaffected leftists, young first-time voters – all coming together behind a Republican candidacy.
我们共同创造了历史，并基于对不受监管的边境、海外轻率的好战行径以及统治阶层的政治手腕所带来的沉重人类代价的人道主义关切，赋予了特朗普一项道德授权；正是这种政治手腕，让杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的犯罪集团逍遥法外，而“我们同胞中最卑微者”的基本尊严却无人照料。
Together, we made history and delivered a moral mandate based on a humane concern for the human cost of unregulated borders, thoughtless warmongering overseas and the ruling-class politicking that had allowed a Jeffrey Epstein syndicate to go unpunished while the basic dignity of the “least of our brethren” went untended.
在大选的最后冲刺阶段，我访问了宾夕法尼亚州的叙利亚基督教堂，并见到了那些家族亲身遭受过华盛顿外交政策最恶劣后果的美国人。在那些社区里，我们讨论了加沙、和平以及特朗普的承诺。
In the campaign’s final stretch, I visited Syrian Christian churches in Pennsylvania and met Americans whose families had personally suffered the worst of what Washington’s foreign policy can do. In those communities, we talked about Gaza, peace and Trump’s promises.
这个由支持特朗普的民众组成的、神奇的、形形色色又极具美国特色的拼盘，在发现他们共同信仰着“选出一位将与华盛顿建制派的不人道政策彻底决裂的总统”这一使命时，真正成为了一个统一的群体。
This miraculous, ragtag, all-American patchwork of people who supported Trump in 2024 truly became a people when they discovered their shared belief in the mission of electing a president who would break with the Washington establishment’s inhumane policies.
今天，这个联盟依然出奇地完整。然而正在发生的是，各方正协同努力重新定义什么是“让美国再次伟大”。
Today, that coalition is remarkably intact. What is instead happening is that there is a concerted effort to redefine what MAGA is.
在美国对伊朗发动灾难性的美以战争后的数周内，特朗普宣布“我就是MAGA”，并坚称要将马克·莱文等声名狼藉的新保守主义者的意识形态纳入这一品牌之中。
In the weeks following the launch of the disastrous US-Israeli war on Iran, Trump announced “I am MAGA” and insisted on including in the brand the ideology of infamous neo-cons like Mark Levin.
因此，“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）如今已沦为当初该联盟旨在推翻的好战精英阶层手中的一件粗暴工具。这一品牌目前正走向在今年11月被毁的道路。然而，这并不意味着2024年支持特朗普的那场运动的善良与力量有任何不妥。
As a result, MAGA has now become a blunt instrument of the same war-hungry elites the original coalition aimed to depose. The brand is now on course to be destroyed this November. That, however, says nothing about the goodness and power of the movement that stood behind Trump in 2024.
推动这一MAGA毁灭进程的核心因素之一，或许是不惜一切代价支持、资助和庇护以色列的决定，因为以色列正在加沙实施种族灭绝，并在中东犯下各种其他暴行。
Perhaps one of the central factors that is driving this process of MAGA destruction is the decision to support, fund and protect Israel at any cost as it carries out a genocide in Gaza and various other atrocities in the Middle East.
2026年的选举日将是公众的道德愤慨全面显现的第一次机会。然而令人困惑的是，这也是我们最有权力的政客们在期中选举前特意加倍下注的唯一一件事。
And Election Day 2026 will represent the first time the public’s moral indignation fully makes itself felt. But, bafflingly, that’s also the one matter that our most powerful politicians have made a point of doubling down on ahead of the midterms.
就在几天前，《纽约时报》报道称，美国驻以色列大使迈克·赫卡比的高级顾问、列文的继子大卫·米尔斯坦多次压制或重写了大使馆关于以色列对加沙和约旦河西岸巴勒斯坦人暴行的报告。据称，米尔斯坦甚至阻止发布关于以色列定居者和安全部队杀害巴勒斯坦裔美国人的报告。尽管如此，他依然保住了自己的职位。
Just a few days ago, The New York Times reported that David Milstein, senior adviser to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and stepson of Levin, repeatedly suppressed or rewrote embassy reporting on Israeli violence against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Milstein allegedly even blocked reporting about the killings of Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces. Nevertheless, he still retains his position.
我写下这番话时，是以美国保守派和天主教徒的身份。但在华盛顿挥霍美国的道德权威以庇护以色列政府免受问责，同时将巴勒斯坦人的生命视作可拿来交易的筹码之际，我内心最坚定的信念与我的爱国主义都要求我站出来，反对那些最声高气昂的自封“爱国者”和“保守派基督徒”。我这样做不是因为我如今拒绝他们所声称代表的事物，而是因为我依然拥护它。
I write this as an American conservative and a Catholic. But at a time when Washington is spending America’s moral authority to shield Israel’s government from accountability while treating Palestinian lives as negotiable, both my deepest-held convictions and my patriotism require that I stand against some of the loudest self-proclaimed “patriots” and “conservative Christians”. Not because I now reject what they claim to represent, but because I still embrace it.
皮尤研究中心4月的一项民意调查发现，在18岁至49岁的共和党人及倾向共和党无党派人士中，有57%的人对以色列持不看好的态度。年轻的保守派和其他所有人一样，看到了加沙大屠杀中同样令人揪心的影像。如今自封的“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）运动领袖们——正是这一运动教导年轻人不要信任官方叙事——不能合情合理地指望他们停止发问。
An April survey by Pew Research found that 57 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents aged 18 to 49 viewed Israel unfavourably. Young conservatives have watched the same harrowing footage of the Gaza genocide as everyone else. Today’s new self-proclaimed leaders of MAGA – a movement that taught the youth to distrust official narratives – cannot reasonably expect them to stop asking questions.
特别是当仍有大量杰出人物保持了正直、继续扛着最初联盟的旗帜时，就更不可能了。
Especially not when there are still plenty of prominent figures who have retained their integrity and still carry the original coalition’s banner.
特朗普的前反恐主管乔·肯特因对伊战争勇敢地辞职，并公开描述了促成这场战争的以色列及游说压力。前国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德勇敢地记录下伊朗并未制造核武器，且在2025年的12天战争之后也没有重建其浓缩铀能力，这就削弱了今年用于为战争辩护的“迫在眉睫的核威胁”说法。
Trump’s former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent courageously resigned over the Iran war and publicly described the Israeli and lobbying pressure that helped bring it about. Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard bravely put on record that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon and had not rebuilt its enrichment capability since the 12-day war of 2025, undercutting the “imminent nuclear threat” claim used to justify the war this year.
前众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林和众议员托马斯·马西反对加沙大屠杀和爱泼斯坦丑闻的掩盖。特朗普及其新采纳的新保守主义议程的捐款人阶层支持者对他们进行了打击：格林辞职了，而马西在经历了一场耗资数百万美元旨在将他赶下台的竞选后，输掉了初选。
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Congressman Thomas Massie stood against the Gaza genocide and the Epstein cover-up. Trump and the donor-class backers of his newly adopted neo-con agenda pummelled them: Greene resigned, and Massie lost his primary after a multimillion-dollar campaign to unseat him.
保守派活动人士卡丽·普雷让·博勒为基督徒反对以色列在加沙暴行及犹太复国主义偏执意识形态的立场进行了辩护。她为此付出了代价，失去了在特朗普宗教自由委员会的席位，但她证明了自己是我们运动中的真正领袖。
Conservative activist Carrie Prejean Boller defended Christian opposition to Israel’s violence in Gaza and the bigoted ideology of Zionism. She paid a price, losing her seat on Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, but proved herself a true leader in our movement.
保守派评论员塔克·卡尔森和亚历克斯·琼斯同样利用其有影响力的平台，在对伊战争问题上顶住特朗普，并反对美国对以色列虐待巴勒斯坦人的支持。
Conservative commentators Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones similarly used their influential platforms to stand up to Trump over the Iran war and against US backing of Israeli abuses of Palestinians.
再来看看喜剧演员和播客主：乔·罗根（Joe Rogan）、西奥·冯（Theo Von）、蒂姆·狄龙（Tim Dillon）等人。特朗普的儿子巴伦（Barron）被认为是2024年将他父亲的竞选活动带给这些受众的高明主意幕后功臣。他们慷慨地敞开了自己的平台：罗根支持了特朗普，冯采访了他，而狄龙则在万斯（JD Vance）成为副总统候选人后接待了他。
And consider the comedians and podcasters: Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Tim Dillon and others. Trump’s son Barron was credited with the brilliant idea of bringing his father’s campaign to their audiences in 2024. They graciously opened their platforms: Rogan endorsed Trump, Von interviewed him and Dillon hosted JD Vance after he became the vice presidential nominee.
现在，正是这些声音在谴责流血事件和破灭的承诺。从加沙、黎巴嫩和约旦河西岸到伊朗，特朗普已经挥霍了他们的善意。
Now these same voices are condemning the bloodshed and broken promises. From Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank to Iran, Trump has squandered their goodwill.
这些政治和文化领袖预示了这个联盟未来仍将面临的前景。他们最终支持的候选人——或者如果他们自己参选——选民将会轻易认出。我和数百万其他人将坚决支持他们。
These political and cultural leaders represent a preview of the future this coalition still has ahead of it. The candidates they eventually support – or themselves, if they run – will be easily recognisable to voters. And I and millions of others will be behind them.
霸凌那些其支持遭到特朗普政府背叛的选民，将产生你完全意料之中的后果。最初的“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）联盟将摧毁一个拥护该运动自始至终旨在摧毁的政策的共和党。在选举日，该联盟的道义愤慨将充分显现出来。
Browbeating the voters whose support the Trump administration betrayed will have exactly the consequences you would expect. The original MAGA coalition will destroy a Republican Party that embraces the policies the movement aimed to destroy all along. On Election Day, the coalition’s moral indignation will fully make itself felt.
不要被有关我们运动出现“分裂”的言论所误导。当新的“MAGA”倒台时，那不会是因为我们的联盟瓦解。那将是因为我们的联盟依然强盛。而我们甚至还没开始战斗。
Don’t be misled by talk of a “split” in our movement. When the new “MAGA” falls, it will not be due to a disintegration of our coalition. It will be because our coalition is still going strong. And we have not yet begun to fight.