周三凌晨，阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德在密歇根州对支持者发表讲话时，感到无比自豪。
Abdul El-Sayed was feeling triumphant as he addressed supporters in Michigan in the early hours of Wednesday.
他熬过了一场丑陋的竞选，忍受了关于他宗教信仰的侮辱和诽谤，然后创造了历史，成为美国首位穆斯林参议员。
He had survived an ugly election contest, enduring insults and smears about his religion, then made history as the US’s first Muslim senator.
在此之后，他或许有权庆祝一番，但本应感谢支持者的中期选举胜利演讲，似乎反而激怒了他的敌人。
After that, he was probably entitled to a celebration, but a midterm elections victory speech supposedly meant to thank his supporters seemed to be calculated to rile his enemies instead.
埃尔-赛义德医生说：“直到现在，你可能注意到，每当提到这场比赛的结果时，我总是说‘如果真主意欲’或‘天意如此’。但今天——今晚，我们可以把这变成‘万赞归主’（赞美真主）。”在竞选期间充斥着关于他宗教信仰的毫无根据的指控——唐纳德·特朗普称他为“圣战分子”，而他的对手迈克·罗杰斯则声称他赞同“9·11”事件——之后，他用阿拉伯语发表讲话，这似乎是一种旨在激怒其政治对手的举动。
Dr El-Sayed said: “Up until right about now, you might have noticed I always say ‘inshallah’ or ‘God willing’ whenever the outcome of this race was mentioned. But today – tonight, we can turn that, inshallah, into an ‘alhamdulillah’ [praise be to God].”Speaking Arabic after a campaign marred by baseless claims about his religion – Donald Trump has called him a “jihadist” while his opponent, Mike Rogers, claimed he approved of 9/11 – seemed like a move designed to provoke his political opponents.
阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（图为与妻子莎拉·朱卡库在一起）在胜利演讲中用阿拉伯语说“万赞归主”。福克斯新闻的评论员们被这番演讲激怒，迅速加入批评行列，加州邮报的评论编辑乔尔·波拉克说：“你不能一开始就向你的穆斯林支持者传递这样的信息。我觉得这真的很刺耳。”埃尔-赛义德医生表现得像一个时刻处于竞选状态的人。从某种意义上说，谁又能责怪他呢？他赢得了他一生中最重要的一场战斗，而且“让美国再次伟大”运动从未表现出宽宏大量。
Abdul El-Sayed, pictured with his wife, Sarah Jukaku, said ‘praise be to God’ in Arabic in his victory speech Fox News pundits, inflamed by the speech, were quick to pile in, with Joel Pollack, the California Post opinion editor, saying: “You don’t start your speech with a kind of message to your Muslim supporters at first. I thought that was really grating.”Dr El-Sayed is acting like a man permanently in campaigning mode. And in a sense, who could blame him? He has won the fight of his life, and it’s hardly as if the Maga movement has ever been a magnanimous one.
然而，这意味着他和其他志同道合的民主党人，在看似完全胜利的时刻，却冒着将毁灭自己的工具拱手让给对手的风险。
However, it means that he, and other like-minded Democrats, risk handing their opponents the tools of their destruction at the moment of what seems total triumph.
在民主党人取得一系列压倒性胜利后，胜利正让位于得意忘形，他们夺回了共和党人几十年来（在堪萨斯州近一个世纪）一直占据的据点。他们看到了一股“蓝色浪潮”，并决定是时候举办海滩派对了。民主党人这样做，反而让对手更容易将他们漫画化。
Triumph is giving way to triumphalism after a series of crushing wins by Democrats, seizing Republican strongholds where they had been a footnote for decades – for almost a century, in the case of Kansas. They saw one blue wave and decided it was time for a beach party. In doing so, Democrats are making it easier for their opponents to caricature them.
他们之所以能以决定性优势赢回众议院和参议院，很大程度上是因为他们大多没有表现得像特朗普所抱怨的那种“激进左翼疯子”。
The reason they won back the House and Senate by decisive margins was because, for the most part, they did not act like the “radical Left lunatics” that Mr Trump complains they are.
得克萨斯州的詹姆斯·塔拉里科认识到了这一点。他成为自1988年以来首位在孤星州赢得参议院选举的民主党人。
James Talarico in Texas, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate election in the Lone Star state since 1988, recognised that.
他的政治立场是坚定不移的中间派，演讲中充斥着宗教和朴实的语言，谈论“爱邻如己”，以及用“门前铺上欢迎垫、门上挂好锁”来保障边境安全。选民想要的是候选人，而不是文化斗士。然而。
His politics was doggedly centrist and speeches swaddled in religious and homely language, about “loving thy neighbour” and securing the border with a “welcome mat out front and a lock on the door”. Voters want a candidate, not a culture warrior. And yet.
民主党众议员罗·卡纳是周三早些时候最早发声的人之一，他将中期选举的胜利赞誉为特朗普政府试图废除的多元化、公平与包容（DEI）项目的胜利。
Ro Khanna, the Democratic congressman, was one of the first out of the blocks early on Wednesday, lauding midterm wins as a victory for the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes that the Trump administration has sought to dismantle.
卡纳在社交媒体上的一段视频中说：“今晚，DEI回来了，美国庆祝了多元与包容。
In a video on social media, Mr Khanna said: “Tonight, DEI is back as America celebrated diversity and inclusion.
“很可能会有三位黑人州长：得克萨斯州首位拉丁裔州长、首位穆斯林美国参议员、首位同性恋参议员。我爱这样的美国。”这对首次进入国会的民主社会主义者来说，无疑是悦耳之音。
“Likely three black governors: the first Latina governor in Texas, the first Muslim American senator, the first gay senator. I love this America.”That will be music to the ears of the Democratic socialists entering Congress for the first time.
但这正是Maga运动的舒适区。政府官员，比如国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯，经常受到的一项指责就是，除了文化战争之外他们无话可谈。
But this is comfortable territory for Maga. One charge often levelled at administration officials, such as Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, is that they have nothing to talk about except the culture wars.
如果民主党人坚持要继续打这场仗，就像二战结束后几十年仍在继续战斗的日本散兵一样，他们就会像2024年那样失败。
If Democrats insist they want to keep fighting this battle, like the Japanese holdouts who continued fighting the Second World War decades after it ended, they will lose as they did in 2024.
左翼评论员迈赫迪·哈桑在赛义德博士的选举之夜派对上做直播，他为民主党的胜利欢呼到嗓子嘶哑，并滔滔不绝地列出一长串他眼中的政治敌人。
Mehdi Hasan, a Left-wing commentator who broadcast from Dr El-Sayed’s election night party, shouted himself hoarse as he exulted in the Democrat’s victory and reeled off a lengthy list of perceived political enemies.
“我只想对唐纳德·特朗普、迈克·罗杰斯、埃隆·马斯克和JD·万斯说，”他说道，此时他连敌人名单的四分之一都还没念完。
“I just want to say to Donald Trump, and Mike Rogers, and Elon Musk, and JD Vance,” he said, not even a quarter of the way through his enemies’ list.
“阿卜杜勒·赛义德，一名左翼穆斯林反犹太复国主义者，即将进入美国参议院。所以，对你们所有人，我有两个字。两个字：多哭会儿吧。”
“Abdul Al-Sayed, a Left-wing Muslim anti-Zionist, is heading to the United States Senate. And so, for all of you, I have two words. Two words: cry more.”
“我只想对唐纳德·特朗普、迈克·罗杰斯、埃隆·马斯克和JD·万斯说……多哭会儿吧！”@mehdirhasan 在首位穆斯林美国人即将就任美国参议员之际向MAGA喊话：阿卜杜勒·赛义德博士！
"I just want to say to Donald Trump and Mike Rogers and Elon Musk and JD Vance… Cry more!" @mehdirhasan calls out MAGA after the first Muslim-American is set to take office in the U.S. Senate: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed!
请关注我们的中期选举报道：其中一些可能只是左翼人士在经历如此多失望之后终于目睹大规模蓝色胜利的简单糖分亢奋。
Follow our midterms coverage at Some of this may be a simple sugar rush experienced by Left-wingers finally witnessing wide-scale blue victories after so many disappointments.
在塔拉里科先生的选举之夜派对上，兴奋发狂的民主党人四处奔走自拍，拥抱朋友。“我欣喜若狂……说实话，感觉难以置信，”30岁的科技工程师艾里斯·罗梅罗说。
Delirious Democrats at Mr Talarico’s election night party ran around taking selfies, and hugging their friends. “I’m ecstatic ... it feels unbelievable, I’m not going to lie,” said Iris Romero, a 30-year-old tech engineer.
其中一些则可能更为 cynical。聪明的政客，比如赛义德博士和据传正考虑2028年竞选总统的卡纳先生，从特朗普先生身上学到了东西，知道可以通过在社交媒体上煽动愤怒来提升自己的知名度。当然，他们成名的代价是拖累自己的政党。
Some of it is likely more cynical. Clever politicians, such as Dr El-Sayed and Mr Khanna, who is rumoured to be considering a 2028 presidential run, have learned from Mr Trump and know they can raise their own profiles by stoking social media outrage. Of course, the price of their fame is dragging down their own party.
赛义德博士安稳地坐拥六年任期。卡纳先生代表深蓝的旧金山，他刚刚以超过70%的得票率连任。两人目前都安然无恙。
Dr El-Sayed is sitting comfortably on a six-year term. Mr Khanna represents deep-blue San Francisco, where he has just been re-elected with more than 70 per cent of the vote. Both are safe for now.
民主党正处于十字路口。如果他们选择忘记2024年的警告和2026年的教训，他们将在2028年迎来惨痛的觉醒。
Democrats are at a crossroads. If they choose to forget the warnings of 2024, and the lessons of 2026, they will have a rude awakening in 2028.