周二，共和党中期选举惨败的最终结果甚至还远未统计完毕，这就成了众所周知的“MAGA长刀之夜”。
The final tally of Republicans’ midterm electoral carnage wasn’t even close to being counted Tuesday when it became the proverbial Night of the Long MAGA Knives.
随着民主党取得众议院和参议院的决定性控制权，一路上翻转了许多“安全”的共和党席位，甚至通过赢得所有待选的全州公职将得克萨斯州变成蓝色，总统唐纳德·特朗普此前强大的MAGA联盟开始涌入互联网，其“思想领袖”们开始猛烈抨击任何他们能归咎于这场历史性选举崩溃的人。通常，攻击的目标是彼此。
As Democrats took decisive control of the House and Senate, flipping numerous “safe” Republican seats along the way and even turning Texas — — blue by winning every statewide office up for election, President Donald Trump’s heretofore powerful MAGA coalition took to the internet, and its “thought leaders” began lashing out at anyone they could blame for the historic electoral collapse. Often the targets were one another.
查亚·赖希克（Chaya Raichik）——X平台上极右翼账号“Libs of TikTok”的运营者——将责任归咎于民主党，她虚假地声称民主党“输入了数百万外国人，塞给他们一堆免费的东西，然后把他们登记为选民”，并补充道：“如果我们想再次获胜，我们需要加大力度进行驱逐出境和剥夺国籍，否则我们的国家将永远迷失在共产主义者手中。”
Chaya Raichik — the far-right operator of the Libs of TikTok X account — blamed Democrats, who she falsely claimed “imported millions of foreigners, handed them a bunch of free shit, and then registered them to vote,” adding, “If we ever want to win again we need deportations and denaturalizations ramped up on steroids or our country will forever be lost to the communists.”
劳拉·卢默（Laura Loomer）——这位自称“亲白人民族主义”的意见领袖，以兜售虚假、种族主义阴谋论以及担任特朗普麦卡锡主义忠诚执行者而闻名——也将责任分摊了出去。她说“最好是禁止TikTok”，点名了基督教民族主义者（“你们的上帝昨晚在哪里？”），并将共和党令人羞耻的失败归咎于美国的种族多样性（“美国本来就被打造成一个多数白人国家。而不是第三世界少数族裔的粪坑”）。
Laura Loomer — the self-described “pro-white nationalism” influencer known for pushing false, racist conspiracy theories and for being Trump’s McCarthyite loyalty enforcer — spread the blame around too. She said it “would have been best to ban Tik Tok,” called out Christian nationalists (“Where was your God last night?”) and blamed the GOP’s humiliating defeat on America’s racial diversity (“America was always intended to be a majority White country. Not a cesspool for third world minorities”).
“披萨门”造谣者迈克·瑟诺维奇（Mike Cernovich）将责任归咎于查理·柯克（Charlie Kirk）之后的美国转折点组织（Turning Point USA）领导层，他在X上发文称该组织需要“全面整改”，并补充说“美国转折点组织是一个专注于影响年轻人问题的青年运动”，应当告诉捐赠者“要么按查理的愿景继续下去，要么让他们滚蛋”。
“Pizzagate” propagandist Mike Cernovich blamed the post-Charlie Kirk leadership of Turning Point USA, writing on X that the organization needed “a total revamp,” adding that “TPUSA is a youth movement focused on issues impacting young people” and that donors should be told “it’s Charlie’s vision going forward or they can go f––– themselves.”
基督教民族主义牧师乔尔·韦博（Joel Webbon）加入了一些反犹太主义的分析，他在X上发文称：“为以色列打了一场全面战争。犹太人还是投票给民主党。特朗普为了换取空气背叛了国家。”《联邦党人》杂志联合创始人兼首席执行官肖恩·戴维斯（Sean Davis）将责任归咎于好战的新保守主义者，如本·夏皮罗（Ben Shapiro）和马克·莱文（Mark Levin），因为他们极力主张特朗普对伊朗发动那场失败且旷日持久的战争。
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon added some antisemitic analysis, posting to X: “An entire war for Israel. Jews still voted Democrat. Trump betrayed the country for nothing.”Sean Davis, co-founder and CEO of The Federalist, blamed hawkish neoconservatives like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin for their advocacy of Trump’s failed and interminable Iran war.
“新保守主义者从不承担责任。他们只是把所有人没能足够狂热地奉行新保守主义归咎于他人。他们就像共产主义者一样，总是宣称实际上新保守主义并没有失败，因为真正的的新保守主义从未被尝试过，”戴维斯在X上的一篇帖子里写道，该帖子回应了福克斯新闻9月份的一个剪辑片段，其中夏皮罗和莱文辩称这场战争不会对共和党在中期选举中产生负面影响。
“Neocons never take accountability. They just blame everyone else for not neoconning hard enough. They’re just like communists, always claiming that akshully neoconservatism didn’t fail because true neoconservatism has never been tried,” Davis wrote in an X post responding to a Fox News clip from September of Shapiro and Levin arguing that the war wouldn’t negatively affect the GOP in the midterms.
就莱文而言，他将责任归咎于塔克·卡尔森（Tucker Carlson），称他是“觉醒帝国”的一部分——这是一个荒谬词汇“觉醒右翼”的变体，而“觉醒右翼”本身只是MAGA的一个委婉说法，将老派右翼种族主义归咎于左翼。莱文在X上写道，他的前福克斯新闻同事是一个“可恶的生物”，“他利用其外国粉丝和意见领袖，竭尽全力破坏总统、共和党和中期选举”，莱文进一步指责反伊战的卡尔森是“我们历史上面对国家最大的叛徒之一”。
For his part, Levin blamed Tucker Carlson, who he called part of the “woke Reich” — a play on the ridiculous term “woke right,” which itself is just a MAGA euphemism that blames the left for old-school right-wing racism. Calling Carlson a “loathsome creature,” Levin wrote on X that his ex-Fox News colleague “did all he could, with his foreign followers and influencers, to sabotage the president, the GOP, and the mid-term elections,” further impugning the anti-Iran war Carlson as “among the biggest traitors to our country in our history.”
然而，MAGA的狂热分子不仅将责任归咎于左翼和彼此。在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）采访时，移民打击行动操盘手斯蒂芬·米勒（Stephen Miller）的妻子凯蒂·米勒（Katie Miller）辩称，“妈妈们太忙于抚养孩子和照顾他们，以至于没空去投票站”。米勒随后承认她没有在这场选举中投票，并声称“在弗吉尼亚州，当你投票时，你就是在人肉搜索你自己的地址”，并补充说她将“我的安全和保障置于放弃这一切之上”。
But MAGA warriors didn’t just blame the left and one another. In an interview with CBS News, Katie Miller, the wife of immigration-crackdown architect Stephen Miller, argued that “moms are too busy raising their children and taking care of them to get to the polls.”Miller then admitted she didn’t vote in this election, claiming that “in Virginia, when you vote, you dox your own address,” adding that she prioritized “my safety and security over giving that up.”
抛开对“人肉搜索”一词的误用不谈——该词意指为报复或恐吓而公开个人信息——对于米勒这样一位直言不讳的选民身份证支持者来说，声称选民登记是对美国人安全的威胁，简直荒谬绝伦（而且多少有点好笑）。
Aside from the misapplication of the term “dox” — which means publicly revealing personal information as a form of revenge or intimidation — it is preposterous (and more than a little bit funny) for a strident voter ID advocate like Miller to claim that voter registration is a threat to Americans’ safety.
正如MS NOW撰稿人G·埃利奥特·莫里斯（G. Elliott Morris）所解释的那样，虽然很难将MAGA联盟的崩溃归咎于某一个意识形态分歧，但特朗普2024年选民联盟（包括拉丁裔和年轻选民）的人口结构崩溃，最能解释共和党所谓的2024年氛围转变如何在短短两年内变成佛罗里达州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯所说的“共和党灭绝级事件”。
While it’s difficult to trace the collapse of the MAGA coalition to any one ideological disagreement, as MS NOW contributor G. Elliott Morris explained, the demographic collapse of Trump’s 2024 voter coalition — including Latino and younger voters — is the most likely answer to how the GOP’s supposed 2024 vibe shift turned into what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called an “extinction-level event for Republicans” in just two years.
最终，副总统万斯对这场蓝色海啸的诊断几乎可以肯定是绝对正确的：“我们失败的原因是这场战争。”飙升的燃料价格、加剧的通货膨胀、金融不稳定以及在实现政府屡次变化的战争目标方面表面上的失败，是无法对美国公众隐瞒的。
Ultimately, Vice President JD Vance’s diagnosis for the blue tsunami is almost certainly the most correct one: “The reason we lost is the war.”The surging fuel prices, exacerbated inflation, financial instability and apparent failure to achieve any of the administration’s oft-shifting goals for the war cannot be hidden from the American public.
本·夏皮罗在伊战爆发之初曾称特朗普为“一位独特的充满雄性激素的总统”和“现代美国历史上最勇敢的统帅”，他将部分责任归咎于总统未能对伊朗“狠狠打击、快战快决并实现你的目的”。哎呀。
Ben Shapiro, who at the onset of the Iran war called Trump “a uniquely testosterone-filled president” and “the most courageous commander-in-chief in modern American history,” laid some responsibility at the president’s feet for failing to “go hard, finish it fast and achieve your ends” in Iran. Whoops.
事实证明，MAGA联盟各派系的破裂，和他们曾经合唱特朗普崇拜赞歌时一样，丑陋得恰如其分。正像在“好时光”里一样，其追随者在政治分析中大肆宣扬极端偏执、阴谋论和惊人的无能。
The crackup of the MAGA coalition’s factions is proving to be as appropriately ugly as it was when they all sang in Trump-worshipping harmony. And just as it was during the “good times,” its adherents are extolling rank bigotry, conspiracy theories and astounding ineptitude in their political analysis.
虽然这确实看起来像是特朗普对保守派基层如邪教般的掌控的无可挽回的终结，但在某些方面，看着它四分五裂真是一种遗憾。毕竟，这群人确实绝配。
While this does seem like the irrevocable end of Trump’s cultlike hold on the conservative base, in some ways it is a shame to see it fall apart. After all, these people really do deserve each other.