总统喷吐着粗俗仇恨的言辞，同时流露出对追随者的蔑视。特朗普在其永无止境的恶毒中期竞选言论中，非但没有偏离轨道，反而将特朗普主义推向了最佳境界。他将厌女、种族主义和本土主义的原始成分提炼为其政治哲学的纯净精华。
The president has spewed vulgar and hateful rhetoric even as he reveals his disdain for his followers Far from veering off his track, Trump in his ceaselessly vile midterm campaign statements has attained an optimal level of Trumpism. He has distilled the raw elements of misogyny, racism and nativism to the purified essence of his political philosophy.
共和党候选人和他的副总统追随他走上了“定义越轨向下”的道路，这一概念由丹尼尔·帕特里克·莫伊尼汉在1993年《美国学者》杂志的文章中阐述，意指降低标准使异常犯罪行为看似正常，通过否认其显而易见的存在来应对，并借此过程将“美国公共生活显著衰退”庸俗化。
The Republican candidates and his vice-president have followed him down the trail of “defining deviancy down”, as explained by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in his essay in The American Scholar in 1993, about lowering the bar to make abnormal criminal behavior seem normal, coping through denial of its obvious presence, and through that process trivializing “the manifest decline of American civic life”.