在唐纳德·特朗普为中期选举举行的近期集会上，有一类人群显得格外突出：那些曾以挨拳头为生的“硬汉”。
One group is oddly overrepresented among those whom Donald Trump has trotted out during his recent rallies ahead of the midterms dudes who used to take blows to the head for a living.
正如2024年大选时一样，特朗普在冲刺阶段的选民动员中，依仗着年迈的拳击手——其中一些人有着令人不安的过往。
just like in 2024 Trump is leaning on aging boxers — including some with disturbing histories — in his late-stage voter mobilization push.
被定罪的强奸犯迈克·泰森在最近一次纽约州北部的集会上大赞总统。作为回应，特朗普吹捧泰森巅峰时期的凶狠，称他是“非常危险的人”。曾因家庭暴力服刑的弗洛伊德·梅威瑟 Jr. 近日在亚利桑那州的集会上为特朗普站台。
Convicted rapist Mike Tyson sang the president’s praises during a recent rally in upstate New York. In turn, Trump touted Tyson’s brutality during his prime, calling him a “very dangerous person.”Floyd Mayweather Jr., who served time for domestic violence recently touted Trump at a rally in Arizona.
本周，伊万德·霍利菲尔德现身南卡罗来纳州集会，与特朗普同台。当时总统提到霍利菲尔德的名字，为一名在人群中殴打嘘声者的支持者喝彩。这位退役拳王曾因2014年发表恐同言论登上头条，这实在让人不禁猜测，对于特朗普近来对男性身体的那些猥亵评论，他作何感想。
And Evander Holyfield appeared alongside Trump this week at a rally in South Carolina, where the president evoked Holyfield’s name to cheer on a supporter who punched a heckler in the crowd. The retired boxer made headlines in 2014 for making homophobic remarks which certainly makes me wonder what he thinks about Trump’s lecherous observations about men’s bodies lately.
种族因素在此无法回避。随着其政府以多种让人联想到吉姆·克劳时代的方式向黑人美国发动战争，特朗普在集会上推出老牌黑人拳王——这些活动充满了偏执的谩骂——试图暗示他领导的并非一场由赤裸裸的种族主义驱动的运动。也很容易看出，这类男人如何在一个浸染着有毒男子气概和逞强表演的保守运动中沦为棋子。
The racial component here is unavoidable As his administration wages war on Black America in a host of ways reminiscent of the Jim Crow era Trump is trotting out old Black boxers during rallies — events filled with bigoted diatribes — in a way that might suggest he’s not leading a movement fueled by blatant racism. It’s also easy to see how these kinds of men can be made into pawns in a conservative movement that is steeped in toxic masculinity and displays of bravado In reality, Trump’s return to office has done very little for men, substantively speaking.
实际上，特朗普重返白宫在实质上几乎未给男性带来任何实惠。他未能兑现带回所谓“男子汉工作”的誓言——事实上，自他重返白宫以来，净新增就业岗位几乎全由女性占据。这是MS NOW主持人克里斯·海耶兹在《为什么会这样？》近期一期节目中与记者亚当·瑟沃探讨的话题。考虑到这一切，至少部分原因解释了为何特朗普在男性中的支持出现松动迹象。
He has failed to make good on his vow to bring back supposedly manly jobs— and, in fact, women have accounted for almost all of the net job creation that has occurred since he returned to office It’s a topic MS NOW’s Chris Hayes discussed with journalist Adam Serwer during a recent episode of “Why Is This Happening?”And it seems like at least part of the reason why Trump’s support among men has shown signs of softness Given all of that, prizefighters of past and present have basically become shiny objects that can distract MAGA men from the president’s failings.
过去和现在的拳击手基本上成了闪亮的诱饵，用来转移“让美国再次伟大”男性支持者对总统失职的注意力。我此前曾撰文论述特朗普利用格斗运动——包括拳击和综合格斗——为其运动披上一层他本人似乎缺乏的强硬光环。卢克·托马斯等记者更深入地精准剖析了这一趋势。
I’ve written previously about Trump’s use of combat sports —both boxing and mixed martial arts— to give his movement an air of toughness that he seems to lack on his own. Journalists like Luke Thomas have excellently homed in on this trend in even greater depth.
留给选民的问题是，他们是否认为这些结盟除抚慰脆弱的男性自尊外别无他用。若政治专业挨拳头数就能衡量，泰森、梅威瑟和霍利菲尔德的背书或许真有分量。但显然并非如此。
And the question for voters is whether they think these alliances serve any purpose other than to stroke fragile male egos. If political expertise were measured in jabs taken to the head, endorsements from Tyson, Mayweather and Holyfield might mean something of value. But that obviously is not the case.
在我看来，这些背书更像是一个渴望当强人的政客、其在核心选民中的影响力正在衰退时叫来的还人情。换句话说：以强掩弱。
These endorsements seem to me, more than anything else, like favors called in for a wannabe strongman whose clout is waning among a core constituency. In other words: weakness masked as strength.
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