在黑人选民问题上，今年的中期选举凸显出，保守派的策略更多是欺骗和压制，而非说服。
When it comes to Black voters, this year’s midterm elections have underscored that conservatives’ strategy is more steeped in trickery and suppression than persuasion.
在唐纳德·特朗普的敦促下，共和党人今年早些时候实施了吉姆·克劳式的选区划分，削弱了多个州黑人选民的权力。这不是一个想要通过有说服力的论据赢得黑人选民支持的政党应有的行为。
At Donald Trump’s urging, Republicans enacted Jim Crow-style gerrymanders earlier this year that diluted Black voter power in several states. This is not the behavior of a party that wants to compete for Black voters by winning them over with compelling arguments.
而在本轮选举周期中，保守派竞选团队和捐助者一如既往地依靠赤裸裸的欺骗和操纵来针对黑人选民。
And in this election cycle, conservative campaigns and donors have characteristically leaned on straight-up deception and manipulation in their efforts to target Black voters.
这份名单似乎每天都在变长：俄亥俄州那位黑人进步派人士，共和党人一直在扶持他的独立参议员竞选，试图从民主党候选人谢罗德·布朗手中拉走黑人选票；得克萨斯州那位共和党人分享了一段AI生成的视频，显示黑人选民支持他的竞选；转折点组织的活动人士试图在凤凰城地区的黑人社区放置“民主党人支持比格斯”的广告牌，以此助推安迪·比格斯在亚利桑那州的州长竞选。
The list seems to grow with each passing day: The Black progressive in Ohio whose independent Senate candidacy Republicans have been propping up to try to peel off Black votes from Democratic nominee Sherrod Brown; the Texas Republican who shared an AI-generated video depicting Black voters backing his campaign; the Turning Point activists trying to boost Andy Biggs’ gubernatorial bid in Arizona by placing “Democrats for Biggs” billboards in Black neighborhoods in the Phoenix area.
还有那个由一名白人共和党捐助者资助的超级政治行动委员会呢？它一直在向黑人居民狂轰滥炸地投放关于密歇根州关键参议院竞选的宣传。民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德对阵共和党人迈克·罗杰斯，后者在开展近年来最偏执的参议院竞选之一时，基本上把黑人当成了道具。据《华盛顿邮报》报道：当艾丽莎·杰克逊走在一个人口以黑人为主的社区，试图鼓励不情愿的选民前往投票站时，她收到了来自“ empowering Black Americans 的本”的短信。
And how about the super PAC — funded by a white GOP donor — that has been bombarding Black residents with propaganda about Michigan’s pivotal Senate race? Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing off against Republican Mike Rogers, who has basically treated Black people like props while running one of the most bigoted Senate campaigns in recent memory. As The Washington Post reported: The text from “Ben with Empowering Black Americans” landed as Alisha Jackson walked a majority Black neighborhood trying to encourage reluctant voters to show up to the polls.
短信警告她，她希望当选参议员的民主党人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德“对黑人选民不尊重且不诚实。你支持他吗？”短信问道。
It warned her that Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat she wants elected to the Senate, “has been disrespectful and dishonest with Black voters. Are you supporting him?” it asked.
事实证明，“赋能美国黑人”是一个超级政治行动委员会，而联邦记录显示其已知的捐助者只有一人：一位来自匹兹堡、向共和党事业捐款的白人商人。
Empowering Black Americans, it turns out, is a super PAC with one known donor in federal records: a White businessman from Pittsburgh who donates to Republican causes.
当然，还有其他例子。今年早些时候，我曾撰文报道过由共和党主导的一个政治行动委员会资助的传单，这些传单援引三K党，针对黑人选民投放宣传材料，意在削弱弗吉尼亚州民主党人对MAGA阵营种族主义选区重划攻势的回应。而Sludge网站最近的一篇报道援引财务记录显示，黑人哲学家康奈尔·韦斯特2024年那场胜算渺茫的总统竞选——韦斯特以明确亲黑人的措辞来包装这场竞选——其背后的非营利组织，全部资金都来自一个由埃隆·马斯克资助的暗钱团体。而马斯克并非唯一支持韦斯特竞选的富有的保守派。
There are other examples, to be sure. Earlier this year, I wrote about the flyers funded by a GOP-led PAC that invoked the Ku Klux Klan to target Black voters with propaganda meant to undermine Virginia Democrats’ response to MAGA world’s racist redistricting push. And a recent report from Sludge cited financial records showing that the nonprofit behind Black philosopher Cornel West’s long-shot presidential bid in 2024 — which West framed in explicitly pro-Black terms — received all of its money from a dark money group funded by Elon Musk. And Musk wasn’t the only rich conservative to back West’s campaign.
这类伎俩似乎正是当今共和党的惯用手法，而该党与一个宣扬白人至上主义宣传、并以各种方式对黑人美国发动攻击的政府站在同一阵线。
This kind of trickery appears to be the modus operandi of today’s Republican Party, which is aligned with an administration that promotes white supremacist propaganda and wages an assault on Black America in various ways.
共和党如此大举诉诸欺骗，读来像是在承认：这个党并没有什么实质性政策可以向黑人兜售。
That the GOP is leaning so heavily into deception reads like an acknowledgment that the party doesn’t have much to sell Black folks in the form of substantive policy.