两年多来，唐纳德·特朗普的共和党一直致力于将美国进一步推向法西斯统治状态。特朗普政权已将联邦政府变成打击意识形态敌人的工具，让亿万富翁盟友大发横财并巩固其权力，并竭尽全力摧毁对这位独裁领导人及其忠信者行径的任何制衡机制。
For two years, Donald Trump’s Republican Party has worked to push the United States further and further into a state of fascist rule. Trump’s regime has turned the federal government against ideological enemies, enriched and entrenched the power of billionaire allies, and done its utmost to decimate any checks and balances on the actions of the despotic leader and his loyalists.
因此，看到民主党人通过民主程序——尽管在我们这个勉强算得上代议制的系统中这些程序存在缺陷——提供了摆脱技术资本支持的法西斯主义的机会，这是一个非同寻常且早就该到来的宽慰时刻。在全国各地，民主党人取得了历史性的胜利。甚至在包括得克萨斯州、佐治亚州和南卡罗来纳州在内的共和党大本营，选民也对特朗普的共和党进行了痛斥。
It is, then, an extraordinary and overdue moment of relief to see the processes of democracy — however flawed in our barely representational system — offer the opportunity to take an off-ramp away from technocapital-backed fascism. Across the nation, Democrats secured historic victories. Even in Republican strongholds including Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina, voters delivered a rebuke to Trump’s GOP.
国会中的民主党人现在拥有两项任务授权：阻止特朗普，并改善美国工人阶级的福祉。这应当被视为一项不容妥协的道德当务之急，必须立即采取行动，以一切可能的方式遏制该政权的法西斯主义。
Democrats in Congress now have a mandate to do two things: Stop Trump, and improve the welfare of the U.S. working class. This should be understood as no less than a moral imperative to act immediately to curb the regime’s fascism in every possible way.
美国人最愤怒的是他们被迫在其中挣扎求生的可怕经济状况。中期选举的结果反映了特朗普式虚假意识的极限：人们知道自己何时贫困，他们也能看到亿万富翁、联邦武装力量、奉行种族灭绝的政府以及总统家属正在从中获利。
Americans are above all furious at the dire economic conditions in which they’re expected to struggle. The midterm results reflect a limit of Trumpian false consciousness: People know when they are poor, and they can see when billionaires, federal armed forces, genocidal governments, and presidential family members are profiting.
尽管国会多数地位失而复得，但民主党人目前在通过能够改善人民物质条件的立法方面面临一场硬仗。但这绝不是不作为、言辞含糊或向两党妥协示好的借口。民主党人必须推动共和党无法阻止的立法，以及特朗普几乎肯定会动用否决权的立法。
Despite their newfound congressional majority, Democrats now face an uphill battle to deliver legislation that will improve people’s material conditions. But that is not an excuse for inaction, mealy-mouthed gestures, or nods to bipartisanship. Democrats must push legislation that Republicans cannot stop, as well as legislation that Trump is all but sure to veto.
首先，民主党人必须立即撤销对医疗补助计划（Medicaid）和补充营养援助计划等项目的削减。他们还必须走得更远，兑现关于强有力的医疗保障、福利支出以及限制大型科技公司毁灭性掠夺的竞选承诺。
For one, Democrats must immediately roll back cuts to programs like Medicaid and supplemental nutritional programs. They must go further, too, and deliver on campaign promises for robust healthcare provisions, welfare spending, and restrictions on the ruinous depredations of Big Tech.
特朗普绕过国会，对他蓄意发动的对伊拉克战争进行了非法的起诉，这场战争迄今已耗资逾470亿美元。但国会有权遏制军事开支。民主党人必须通过更多决议以结束这场战争，他们必须切断对军事预算的资金支持，转而将资金投向医疗保健、住房和绿色基础设施投资等几个紧迫的优先事项。尽管挣扎中的特朗普终于在周一宣布将结束对以色列的军事援助，但民主党人必须通过进一步立法，彻底结束美国对以色列种族隔离政权和种族灭绝的一切共谋。
Trump bypassed Congress to prosecute his illegal war of choice on Iran, which has cost over $47 billion to date. But Congress has the power to curb military spending. Democrats must pass further resolutions to end the war, and they must pull the plug on military budget, directing funds instead to healthcare, housing, and investments in green infrastructure, to name a few urgent priorities. Though a flailing Trump finally announced that he would end military aid to Israel on Monday, it is Democrats who must pass further legislation to end all U.S. complicity in Israel’s apartheid regime and genocide.
民主党人还必须提出法律，削减并废除移民和海关执法局。这不是什么离奇的提案；这个充斥着有罪不罚现象的武装力量成立于2003年，它之所以现在获得的联邦执法机构资金比任何其他机构都多，纯粹是因为国会的赋权。国会有权解散该机构，并通过立法废除特朗普在其《一个宏伟美丽法案》中为边境体制划拨的1700多亿美元资金。
Democrats must also propose laws to defund and abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is no outlandish proposal; the impunity-drenched militia was only founded in 2003, and it is only by virtue of Congress that it now receives more funding than any other federal law enforcement agency. It is in Congress’s power to dismantle the agency and pass legislation to nullify the $170 billion-plus allocated to the border regime in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
民主党人应当尽一切可能撤销和终结政治起诉以及特朗普政府将异见刑事犯罪化的无耻企图。
Democrats should do whatever possible to roll back and end political prosecutions and the Trump administration’s brazen efforts to criminalize dissent.
简而言之，民主党纲领必须拒绝四年来主导该党的紧缩逻辑。正如社会学家梅琳达·库珀所指出，且特朗普的共和党人一再证明的那样，这种紧缩甚至根本算不上紧缩：自20世纪70年代尼克松政府以来，奉行紧缩政策的政府一直通过减税和对金融财富持有者的补贴（这些财富不会向下涓滴）以及资助警务、边境执法、监狱和战争机器来进行慷慨的公共支出。这些都是选择，而民主党人已经获得了一项授权，去做出符合以下目标的抉择——借用一个经典口号——为了多数人，而不是少数人。
The Democratic program must, in short, reject the austerity logics that have dominated the party for four decades. As sociologist Melinda Cooper has pointed out, and Trump’s Republicans have again and again proven, such austerity is not even austere: Pro-austerity governments since the Nixon administration in the 1970s have overseen lavish public spending in the shape of tax cuts and subsidies for holders of financial wealth (which does not trickle down), as well as funding for policing, border enforcement, prisons, and war machines. These are choices, and Democrats have been given a mandate to make choices that instead benefit — to revive a classic — the many, not the few.
诸如来自加利福尼亚州的众议员皮特·阿吉拉尔等民主党人强调，他们的工作重点将放在该党参选时所依托的“负担能力议程”上。这必须包括迅速采取行动，对总统及其内阁中最恶劣的违法者进行调查和弹劾，其中包括战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯和卫生与公众服务部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪。坚持追究特朗普及其党羽无法无天的责任，绝不会分散人们对经济重点的关注。
Democrats such as Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., have stressed that their focus will be on the “affordability agenda” on which the party has run. This must include taking swift action to investigate and impeach the president and the worst offenders in his Cabinet, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In no way does insisting on accountability for Trump and his acolytes’ lawlessness distract from an economic focus.
在存在一个独裁行政长官的情况下，任何负担能力议程都不可能实现。用一切可能的工具挑战特朗普的专制和权钱交易，与通过立法来解决所谓的民生问题是相辅相成的。
No affordability agenda can be achieved with an authoritarian executive in place. Challenging Trump’s despotism and self-dealing with every possible tool goes hand in hand with legislating to deliver on so-called kitchen-table issues.
国会中的民主党人——其中许多人继续拒绝推动这股蓝色浪潮的进步派和左翼力量——能否在这场反法西斯政治与经济议程中取得成功？毫无疑问，他们每走一步都会遭到绝望而危险的行政当局以及腹背受敌的共和党少数派的阻挠。但这绝不是妥协的理由，必须对那些假装情况并非如此的民主党人保持持续的压力。正如今晚的投票所明确显示的那样，数以百万计的美国人知道该责怪谁。
Will Democrats in Congress, many of whom continue to reject the progressive and left-wing energies that have helped drive this blue wave, succeed in this anti-fascist political and economic agenda? No doubt, they will be thwarted at every turn by a desperate and dangerous executive and an embattled Republican minority. That is no reason to compromise, and constant pressure must be kept on Democrats who pretend otherwise. As the votes tonight make clear, in their millions, Americans know who to blame.