唐纳德·特朗普长达数月的针对民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德的攻击，在不可辩驳的方面丑陋不堪，但周五晚在佛罗里达州的一次集会上，这位总统对这位密歇根州民主党人采取了新的攻击路线。
Donald Trump’s monthslong crusade against Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has been ugly in indefensible ways, but at a Friday night rally in Florida, the president pursued a new line of attack against the Michigan Democrat.
在向特朗普视为支持者的黑人选民发表的讲话中，这位共和党人说，关于埃尔赛义德，“我希望你们会投票反对他，把他送回他来的地方。”多年来，“回你来的地方去”这种话，是人们可能会期待从酒吧尽头的愤怒醉汉口中听到的那种偏见陈词滥调。然而近年来，这种公然的种族主义已被美国现任总统公开接受。
In a message delivered to Black voters whom Trump sees as supporters, the Republican said of El-Sayed, “I hope you’re going to vote against him and send him back to where he came from.”For many years, “go back to where you came from” was the kind of bigoted cliché one might expect to hear from the angry drunk at the end of the bar. In recent years, however, the overt racism has been embraced publicly by the sitting president of the United States.
但问题不仅仅是沙文主义式的本土排外主义。还在于。这位民主党参议院候选人。
But the problem isn’t simply the jingoistic nativism. It’s also the fact that . The Democratic Senate candidate was .
没有人能把埃尔赛义德“送回他来的地方”，因为他已经住在密歇根州——。
No one can send El-Sayed “back to where he came from,” because he already lives in Michigan — .
更有甚者，如果这听起来有点耳熟，那不是你的错觉。六年前，四位进步派民主党女国会议员——纽约州众议员亚历山德拉·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯、明尼苏达州众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔、马萨诸塞州众议员阿亚娜·普雷斯利和密歇根州众议员拉希达·特莱布——投票反对一项她们认为过于保守的边境法案，尽管得到了民主党领导层的支持。
What’s more, if this sounds at all familiar, it’s not your imagination. Six years ago, four progressive Democratic congresswomen — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — voted against a border bill that they deemed too conservative, despite support from Democratic leaders.
不久之后，在一场表演性种族主义行为中，特朗普使用他的社交平台，呼吁这四位进步派立法者“回去”到她们来的那些“完全破碎、犯罪横行的地方”。总统补充说，这些女国会议员“原来来自那些政府完全是一场灾难的国家，是世界上最糟糕、最腐败、最无能的国家（如果她们甚至有一个正常运作的政府的话）”。无论共和党人是否理解这一点，他所针对的四位立法者中有三位（奥卡西奥-科尔特斯、普雷斯利和特莱布）出生在美国。
Soon after, in an act of performative racism, Trump used his social platform to call on the four progressive lawmakers to “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”The president added that the congresswomen “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all).”Whether or not the Republican understood this, three of the four lawmakers he targeted (Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley and Tlaib) were born in the United States.
这一种族层面的问题不言而喻。特朗普几乎每天都会以恶毒的方式抨击他的白人政治对手，但他从未暗示过乔·拜登、希拉里·克林顿、杰克·史密斯或詹姆斯·科米应该“滚回他们来的地方”。
The racial dimension to this is unmistakable. Trump rails against his white political opponents in vicious ways on a nearly daily basis, but he’s never once suggested that Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Jack Smith or James Comey should “go back” to where they came from.
但当针对白人官员和候选人发泄不满时，这位现任总统却展现出一种推行扭曲假设的本领：他的对手可能是美国本土出生的公民，但他仍将他们视为值得他鄙视的移民。
But when lashing out at officials and candidates who white, the incumbent president has demonstrated a knack for peddling a perverse assumption: His foes might be native-born Americans, but he nevertheless sees them as immigrants deserving of his contempt.
显然，即使特朗普的所有目标都是归化的美国公民，他们也不该遭受这种种族主义垃圾言论。但他越是对移民使用这种信息，他对“美国人”意味着什么的扭曲愿景就越来越清晰。
Obviously, even if all of Trump’s targets naturalized American citizens, they still wouldn’t deserve to be subjected to this kind of racist garbage. But the more he uses this messaging against those who immigrants, the more his twisted vision of what it means to be an American comes into focus.