埃莉萨·斯洛特金于2024年以“温和派”形象当选参议员。不过众所周知，除了宾夕法尼亚州参议员约翰·费特曼之外，如今国会中已不存在这种类型的民主党政治家了。
Elissa Slotkin was elected to the Senate in 2024 as a supposed “moderate.”But of course we know that, apart from Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, that species of Democratic politician doesn’t exist in Congress anymore.
果不其然，这位曾在约翰·布伦南手下任职的前中央情报局分析员很快就露出了真面目。
Sure enough, it didn’t take long for Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who served under John Brennan, to show her true colors.
上周，这位密歇根州参议员在芝加哥大学向学生们透露，如果民主党在下个月的中期选举中掌控参议院，她打算如何利用手中的权力。
The Michigan senator told students at the University of Chicago last week how she plans to use the power that will come to Democrats if they win Senate control in the midterms next month.
她计划对特朗普政府的官员发起一系列政治调查，以此吓退年轻人，让他们不敢去为特朗普政府效力。
She wants to unleash a barrage of political investigations on Trump officials in order to frighten young people away from taking jobs in the administration.
“唐纳德·特朗普身边的那些人……并不享有总统才有的豁免权……因此我们可以针对那些听命于他的人采取行动，”她在周二的一次播客直播中向听众说道。“重点打击的典型案例”“我想重点处理这些典型案例，不仅针对总统本人，还要追究那些协助他行事的人，”她继续说道。
“The people around Donald Trump . . . have no immunity the way the president does . . . So you go after the people who do his bidding,” she told the audience during a live podcast recording Tuesday. ‘Signature cases’“I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” she continued.
“我希望刚从学校毕业的年轻人会想：‘我该去为特朗普政府工作吗？听起来挺有意思的，说不定还能获得机会呢。’”“但我更希望他们会想：‘天哪，那样做只会给我招来一堆麻烦，我还是别掺和了吧。’”“这就是我想传达的威慑效果。”
“I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’“I want that deterrence message.”
斯洛特金装作是“捍卫民主”的典范。然而，如今掌控着民主党的极左势力就是这么行事的——即便他们披着保守派的外衣，伪装成情报人员、军人、宇航员或医生。
Slotkin pretends she is a stickler for “defending democracy.”But this is how the Bolshevik left who control today’s Democratic Party play the game, even as they cloak themselves in conservative disguises, as intelligence professionals, soldiers, astronauts or doctors.
斯洛特金自视为未来总统，她在九月对卡内基国际和平基金会的一次令人毛骨悚然的演讲中也使用了同样的术语“标志性案件”，当时她点名内政部长道格·伯格姆、华盛顿特区美国检察官珍妮·皮罗以及当时的国土安全部长克里斯蒂·诺姆，称她将针对这些特朗普官员进行政治起诉，以使他们被判处20年监禁。
Slotkin, who fancies herself as a future president, used that same term “signature cases” in a chilling speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in September when she named Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the Trump officials she would target for political prosecutions that would see them jailed for 20 years.
她将针对特朗普官员的报复行动比作波兰的“铁扫帚”清理行动，届时民主党将制定“针对一些最明显和最有害的滥用纳税人资金行为的标志性案件清单”。“我们需要追究那些盗走我们数十亿纳税人资金并将政府武器化以对抗本国人民的人和机构的责任，”她说。
She likened her planned revenge campaign against Trump officials to Poland’s “Iron Broom” cleanup, in which Democrats would create “a list of signature cases that go after some of the most obvious and harmful abuses of taxpayer dollars.”“We need to hold accountable the people and institutions who stole billions of our taxpayer dollars and weaponized the government against its people,” she said.
“在波兰，他们称这个计划为‘铁扫帚’——清理这个地方。”考虑到总统第一任期内的政府官员和特朗普盟友曾遭到乔·拜登武器化司法部的攻击，斯洛特金的威胁尤其令人不安。这是她在前情报职业生涯中学到的心理战的一个方面。
“In Poland, they called this plan the Iron Broom — cleaning the place up.”Slotkin’s threats are especially disturbing when you consider the body count of administration officials and Trump allies from the president’s first term who were attacked by Joe Biden’s weaponized Justice Department. It’s one aspect of the psychological warfare she learned in her former intelligence career.
去年，斯洛特金和另外五名“国家安全”民主党人推出了一段暗示特朗普正在向军方发布“非法命令”的宣传视频。
Last year, Slotkin and five other “national security” Democrats launched a sly propaganda video implying that Trump was giving “illegal orders” to the military.
他们假装该视频是一项公共服务，旨在告知军人他们没有义务遵守总司令的命令。
They pretended the video was a public service to inform military members that they were not obliged to follow the orders of the commander in chief.
参议院方面，特朗普和战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯指责他们犯有煽动罪，斯洛特金后来在一次采访中承认特朗普从未发布过任何非法命令，因此他们的视频是一种心理战行动。但他们成功地在军队中制造了怀疑。
Senate in play Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth accused them of sedition, and Slotkin later admitted in an interview that Trump had never issued any illegal orders and therefore their video was a psyop. But they got away with sowing doubt among the troops.
5月，斯洛特金前往加拿大，会见了该国总理马克·卡尼，并在由左翼智库美国进步中心组织的峰会上挑起事端。在这次峰会上，来自世界各地的自由派政客讨论了“如何在可负担性问题上对抗右翼政客”，换句话说，就是如何击败特朗普。
In May, Slotkin traveled to Canada to meet the nation’s prime minister, Mark Carney, and stir up trouble at a summit organized by the left-wing Center for American Progress where liberal politicians from around the globe discussed “how to battle right-wing politicians on affordability.”In other words, how to defeat Trump.
另一个左翼人士结盟的例子是，卡尼后来被指控在8月份通过搁置美加贸易谈判干涉我们的中期选举，并对缅因州和密歇根州这两个参议院战场州施加了额外的经济压力——这两个州正是斯洛特金的根据地。
In another case of lefties sticking together, Carney since has been accused of interfering with our midterm elections by kiboshing US-Canada trade negotiations in August and placing additional economic pressure on the border Senate battleground states of Maine and Michigan — Slotkin’s home base.
斯洛特金和她的同伙——弗吉尼亚州州长阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格，这位伪装成羊的中情局狼，尤其危险，因为她们表面上是不具威胁性的足球妈妈类型，但实际上是硬核意识形态者，她们已经学会了在全球范围内操纵民主以达到自己目的的黑暗艺术。
Slotkin and her fellow CIA wolf-in-sheep’s clothing, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, are especially dangerous because they present as non-threatening soccer mom types when they really are hardcore ideologues who have learned the dark art of manipulating democracies around the world to suit their purposes.
因此，斯洛特金在说话时使用的是冷静、理性、温和的语言，但在治理时却像个革命者一样行事。
Therefore, Slotkin speaks in the language of calm, reasonable moderation while governing like a revolutionary.
参议院将一直由她主导直到2030年，但保守派最不应该做的事情就是通过强化她的支持率、在11月3日袖手旁观，甚至出于对特朗普未能在两年内兑现所有承诺的怨恨而投给对方，来亲手签署自己的死亡令。
The Senate is stuck with her until 2030, but the last thing conservatives should do is sign their own death warrants by bolstering her numbers, sitting on their hands on Nov. 3 or even voting for the other side out of resentment over Trump not delivering everything he promised in two years.
毕竟，尽管民调黯淡且媒体报道充斥着负面内容，参议院对共和党人来说仍是可挽救的，即使众议院遵循历史先例而落入民主党之手。
After all, despite the gloomy polls and wall-to-wall negative media coverage, the Senate is salvageable for Republicans, even if the House follows historical precedent and falls to the Democrats.
正如CNN首席数据分析师哈里·恩特恩上周所指出的，民调处于平均误差范围3.7个百分点之内，因此目前参议院的局势仍然难以预测。
As Harry Enten, CNN’s chief data analyst, pointed out last week, polls are within an average margin of error of 3.7 percentage points, so the Senate at this point is too close to call.
他说：“如果共和党候选人的表现超过[民调]平均值3.75个百分点，共和党将获得52个席位，民主党将获得48个。”即使共和党在参议院失去三个席位，他们也仍然有缓冲空间。
“If Republican candidates outperform the [poll] averages by 3.75 points, Republicans would get 52 seats, Democrats would get 48,” he said. Republicans also have buffers in the Senate, even if they lose three seats.
法国警告称，副总统JD·万斯是参议院议长，在任何50比50的僵局中可以投下决定性的一票。
France a warning JD Vance, as vice president, is the president of the Senate and can cast the deciding vote in any 50-50 deadlock.
另一种潜在的缓冲形式来自前述的费特曼参议员。正如众议院司法委员会民主党前首席法律顾问朱利安·爱泼斯坦最近在这些页面上所写的那样，费特曼暗示了如果他最终掌握平衡力量，他可能会考虑换党的可能性。
There’s another potential buffer in the form of the aforementioned Sen. Fetterman. As Julian Epstein, former chief counsel for the House Judiciary Democrats, wrote recently in these pages, Fetterman has teased the possibility of flipping parties if he ends up holding the balance of power.
“我没有理由”跳船加入共和党，费特曼三周前对CBS说。但如果他成为参议院的第51名民主党人并掌握决定性的一票，他暗示他可能会重新考虑自己的立场。
“I don’t have a reason” to jump ship to the Republicans, Fetterman told CBS three weeks ago. But if he becomes the Senate’s 51st Democrat and the deciding vote, he suggested he might rethink his position.
“如果我是第51票，”他说，“那么我不知道。让我们在中期选举后再讨论。”费特曼明白，就像所有体面的民主党选民一样，他们必须在恶势力布尔什维克势力夺取他们政党的控制权之前将其击败，才能再次将权力交托给它。
“If I’m 51,” he said, “then I don’t know. Let’s revisit after the midterms.”Fetterman understands, as all decent Democrat voters do, that the malign Bolshevik force that has overtaken their party must be defeated before it can be trusted with power again.
斯洛特金和她拥抱新伊斯兰马克思主义绿红联盟的 fellow 犹太民主党人，就像温斯顿·丘吉尔在二战中指责的绥靖派一样，抱着希望鳄鱼最后吃掉他们的幻想去喂养鳄鱼。
Slotkin and her fellow Jewish Democrats who embrace the new Islamo-Marxist green-red alliance are like the appeasers Winston Churchill accused in World War II of feeding the crocodile in the hope he eats them last.
法国街头的暴力混乱向我们展示了如果上升的革命左翼获得立足点，我们自己的未来会是什么样子。
The violent chaos on the streets of France shows us our own future if the ascendant revolutionary left gains a foothold.