奥巴马总统又发表了一番居高临下的经典言论。本周末在俄亥俄州为民主党人助选时，他说特朗普总统的重新装修让白宫“看起来像萨达姆·侯赛因开了一家芝士蛋糕工厂”。同一天，奥巴马先生还背书了一位社会主义者出任佛罗里达州下一任美国参议员。[音频] 中期选举会显示民主党和共和党联盟的转变吗？
President Obama has delivered another condescending classic. Campaigning for Democrats in Ohio this weekend, he said that President Trump’s redecorations have the White House “looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”The same day, Mr. Obama endorsed a socialist as Florida’s next U.S. Senator. [audio] Will the Midterms Show Shifting Coalitions for Democrats and Republicans?
拿连锁餐厅开玩笑，对一直坚称自己没有忘记中西部劳动人民的民主党人来说，真是个奇特的角度。芝士蛋糕工厂公司称其有约两百家分店，所以它一定有什么做得非常美味。但对克利夫兰、大急流城以及其他地方的所有那些食客来说，奥巴马先生传达的信息是：多么不上档次。
Making fun of chain restaurants is quite an angle for Democrats, who keep insisting that they haven’t forgotten the working man in Middle America. The Cheesecake Factory has a couple of hundred locations, the company says, so it must be doing something deliciously right. But to all of those diners in Cleveland, Grand Rapids, and beyond, here’s Mr. Obama’s message: How déclassé.
与此同时，奥巴马先生没有抵制社会主义者对民主党的接管，反而加入其中。周六，他背书了佛罗里达州州众议员安吉·尼克松的参议员候选人资格，后者在一次爆冷中赢得了初选，尽管——还是因为？——她激进的社会主义观点。她的竞选纲领包括免费托儿、全国租金冻结，以及征收5%的财富税，用于资助“向年收入低于15万美元的家庭直接发放款项”。
Meantime, instead of resisting the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party, Mr. Obama is throwing in with it. On Saturday he endorsed the Senate candidacy in Florida of state Rep. Angie Nixon, who won her primary in an upset despite—or because of?—her radical socialist views. She is campaigning on free childcare, a national rent freeze, and a 5% wealth tax to fund “direct payments to households earning under $150,000 a year.”
是的，尼克松女士明确以让联邦政府从富人手中夺取钱财以便重新分配这些战利品为竞选纲领。这不是羞羞答答的社会主义，而且会在经济上造成破坏，不过奥巴马先生并不反对。“真正的改变始于普通人为正确的事情挺身而出，”他在一段背书视频中说。“安吉整个职业生涯都在为你挺身而出。”奥巴马先生曾说过，没有红州和蓝州之分，用这种言辞作为进步议程的掩护。
Yes, Ms. Nixon is explicitly running on having the federal government seize money from wealthy people so it can redistribute the loot. This isn’t bashful socialism, and it would be economically destructive, not that Mr. Obama objects. “Real change starts when regular folks stand up for what’s right,” he said in an endorsement video. “Angie has spent her career standing up for you.”There are no red states and blue states, Mr. Obama once said, using that rhetoric as cover for a progressive agenda.
但彻底的社会主义？作为民主党元老，更不用说该党最后一位受欢迎的总统，他本可以利用自己的影响力指向一个更有生产力的方向。他没有这样做，这揭示了他所在政党目前的心态。[视频] 《华尔街日报》评论：值得关注的州长竞选
But all-out socialism? As a Democratic elder, not to mention the party’s last popular President, he could use his influence to point in a more productive direction. It’s revealing about his party’s current state of mind that he isn’t. [video] WSJ Opinion: The Governors’ Races to Watch