借用一部老恐怖片的宣传语来改写：如果刚刚让巴黎和欧洲大部分地区陷入恐慌的有组织极左翼无政府主义没有让你毛骨悚然，那只能说明你的皮太厚了。上周在法国爆发的抗议活动中，成千上万家企业遭洗劫和焚毁，无政府主义者在废墟上跳舞。就在这场令人震惊的纵火、抢劫和针对工薪阶层警察的残暴暴力发生之际，富有的众议员罗·卡纳（民主党-加利福尼亚州）似乎在向美国的无政府主义者和极左翼发出虚拟信号，同时对副总统JD·万斯进行了一次经过精心计算的修辞攻击。
To paraphrase the tagline from an old horror movie, if the organized far-left anarchy that just terrified Paris and much of Europe didn’t make your skin crawl, then it’s on too tight. Protests that started in France last week saw thousands of businesses looted and burned to the ground as the anarchists danced on the ashes. As the shocking arson, looting and brutal violence against working-class police officers was taking place, wealthy Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) seemed to virtual signal to the anarchists and the far left here in the U.S., while taking a very calculated rhetorical shot at Vice President JD Vance.
卡纳在X平台发文称：“从法国的高中到马德里的街头，再到地拉那的大学，年轻人都在向他们的政府传达同一个信息：在巨大的财富不平等时代，他们想要一个值得相信的未来。……@JDVance 说这就是一个国家放任太多来自全球南方的移民入境会发生的事。他不仅在道德上是错的，而且误读了当下。这是当国家让财富和权力积聚在少数人手中时会发生的事。”
Khanna posted on X: “From the high schools of France to the streets of Madrid to the universities of Tirana, young people are telling their governments the same thing: In an age of massive wealth inequality, they want a future they can believe in. …@JDVance says this is what happens when a nation lets in too many immigrants from the global south. He is not just morally wrong, but misreading the moment. This is what happens when nations let wealth and power accumulate in the hands of a few.”
他们是学生吗，卡纳众议员？还是受雇的无政府主义者和暴徒？看到这位加州议员指责万斯“误读当下”，同时批评国家“让财富和权力积聚在少数人手中”，实在令人悲哀（也颇为耐人寻味）。恕我直言，卡纳难道不是他所提到的那些“少数人”之一吗？也许才是他误读了形势。2017年进入国会时，卡纳是加州第四富有的议员，据报道最低净资产为2700万美元。
Are they students, Congressman Khanna? Or paid anarchists and thugs? It is quite sad (and quite telling) to see the California lawmaker lecturing Vance for “misreading the moment” while criticizing nations that “let wealth and power accumulate in the hands of a few.”Pardon me, but isn’t Khanna one of those “few” he references? Maybe he’s the one misreading things. When he entered Congress in 2017, Khanna was the fourth richest member from California, with a reported minimum net worth of $27 million.
如今，据报道他的身价已超过3.4亿美元。作为一个在赤贫中长大、童年常流浪街头的人，我毕生都在为穷人和弱势群体的权利而战。因此，我从未理解过抢劫、焚烧和摧毁店主的企业和生计怎么会是一件好事。
Today, he is reported to be worth more than $340 million. As someone who grew up in abject poverty and was homeless often as a child, I have been fighting for the rights of the poor and the disadvantaged my entire life. As such, I have never understood how looting, burning and destroying the businesses and livelihoods of store owners was a good thing.
也许左派人士能开导我一下。我真心不嫉妒卡纳在生活中拥有的任何财富或特权。娶入百万富翁家庭，凭借人脉置身于卡纳所谓的“少数人手中的”特权泡沫之中，那该有多惬意。令人担忧的不是他如今享有的巨额财富带来的种种待遇，而是他赤裸裸的虚伪。万斯当然不是含着金汤匙出生的。他的童年经历在其畅销回忆录《乡下人的悲歌》中有详细描述，深深引起了我国工人阶级的共鸣。
Maybe someone on the left can enlighten me. I honestly begrudge Khanna none of his wealth or privilege in life. How truly nice it must be to marry into a millionaire family, to be placed via connections in the entitlement bubble of what Khanna describes as “the hands of a few.”What is troubling is not the trappings of massive wealth he now enjoys, but rather his blatant hypocrisy. Vance, of course, was not born into money. His childhood, as outlined in his bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” deeply resonates with the working class of our nation.
那么卡纳为什么要把他扯进来？难道卡纳别有用心？难道他觊觎白宫，正在寻找一些妙语来攻击这位被推定的共和党提名人，以便将其插入发送给数百万民众的筹款宣传中？如果卡纳真有意竞选总统，他或许应该去跟我国数千万工人阶级美国人谈谈。他们和万斯一样，不是反移民。他们主权在握、主张保护边境；他们主张法治；他们主张受控且经过审查的移民。
So why did Khanna drag him into it? Could it be that Khanna has another motivation? Could it be that he has his eyes on the White House and is looking for some one-liners to fire at the presumptive Republican nominee that could then be inserted into his fundraising pitches to be sent out to millions? If Khanna is truly interested in running for president, he might want to talk to a few of the tens of millions of working-class Americans in our country. They, like Vance, are not anti-immigrant. They are pro-sovereignty and pro-protected borders; they are pro-rule of law; they are pro-controlled and vetted immigration.
这些美国人明白，一个没有明确且受保护边境的国家很快就会不复为国家。如果卡纳关注实情而不是居高临下，他可能会了解到，这些美国人眼下看到法国和欧洲发生的事让他们毛骨悚然，因为他们担心这种无政府状态会像野火一样迅速蔓延至我国的主要城市。如果他与真正的工人阶级美国人打交道，他们会告诉卡纳，法国之所以无力支付账单，不仅因为它是福利国家，还因为它公开允许数百万人入境，靠日益减少的政府救济金生活。
Those Americans understand that a nation without defined and protected borders will soon cease to be a nation. If he paid attention instead of patronized, Khanna might learn that what these Americans see happening in France and Europe at the moment petrifies them, as they fear such anarchy could soon spread like wildfire across our major cities. If he interacted with actual working-class Americans, they would tell Khanna that France can no longer pay its bills, not only because it is a welfare state, but also because it openly allowed millions into the nation to live off an ever-shrinking government hand-out.
他们还会给卡纳讲一些最基本的经济学常识：总得有人工作、纳税。天下没有免费的午餐。
They would further explain to some very basic economics to Khanna: Someone has to work, to pay taxes. Nothing is ever free.
这些同样来自工人阶级的美国人也会告诉卡纳，欧洲那些烧毁和抢劫商铺的无政府主义者，表面上是为了抗议精英阶层，实际上只是在利用一场悲剧。文明抗议没有错——它不仅受欢迎，而且往往必不可少。虽然我不能代表万斯发言，但我怀疑他会乐于有机会与卡纳辩论，探讨确保此类美国人未来权利的最佳途径。道格拉斯·麦金农曾任白宫和五角大楼官员。
These same working-class Americans would also tell Khanna that many of the anarchists in Europe who are burning and looting businesses, supposedly in protest against elites, are really just exploiting a tragic situation. There is nothing wrong with civil protest — it is not only welcome, but often essential. And while I cannot speak for Vance, I suspect that he would relish the chance to debate Khanna on the best way to ensure the future rights of such Americans. Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official.