我是个共和党人。我们让太多怪咖混进了我们的党。在过去两年里，特朗普总统及其核心支持者一直奉行“我们可以直接干就是了”的信条。周二，选民们回答说：“我们也可以。”这对共和党来说结果很不妙。
I’m a Republican. We Have Let Too Many Weirdos Into Our Party. For the past two years, President Trump and his core supporters have governed by the mantra “We can just do stuff.”On Tuesday, voters replied, “So can we.”It did not go well for the Republican Party.
选民在周二并没有要求开放边境，但他们确实要求有一个看起来合乎人道的驱逐出境程序。他们希望有一个专注于经济而非椭圆形办公室里贴金箔的总统。选民们拒绝了一个通过关税向他们征税、通过战争推高油价、并且似乎对华盛顿特区的建设工程和社交媒体梗图大战比对中产阶级挣扎更感兴趣的党派。他们拒绝了一个被社交媒体梗图大战、颠覆性种族主义、对独裁者的喜爱以及在选举临近结束时对阿纳金·天行者（他们将其视为年轻男性政治挫败感的象征）的奇异执念所驱使的党派。
Voters did not ask for open borders on Tuesday, but they did ask for a deportation process that looks humane. They wanted a president focused on the economy instead of gold leaf in the Oval Office. Voters rejected a party that taxed them through tariffs, drove up gas prices through war and seemed more interested in construction projects in Washington, D.C., and social media meme wars than in middle-class struggles. They rejected a party driven by social media meme wars, subversive racism, a fondness for dictators and, at the end of the election, a weird fixation on Anakin Skywalker (whom they see as a symbol of young men’s political frustrations).
选民们希望正常人来掌权，他们将怒火发泄在了那些拒绝回击共和党内部的疯狂、腐败和无能的原本正常的共和党人身上。
Voters want normal people in charge, and they took their wrath out on otherwise normal Republicans who refused to push back against the lunacy, corruption and incompetence within the G.O.P.
多年来，共和党人一直在发出警告：一个不愿对抗其激进分子的政党，终将被这些激进分子所定义。他们指的是民主党，并特别指出那些致力于从内部接管民主党 Democratic Socialists（民主社会主义者）。
Republicans have spent years warning that a party unwilling to confront its radicals will be defined by them. They meant the Democrats, and pointed in particular at the democratic socialists working to take over the Democratic Party from the inside.
现在，这一警告同样适用于共和党。右翼怪咖试图接管共和党人的企图不会停止，党内领导层必须予以抵制，否则就会眼睁睁看着一个公开宣称蔑视保守主义的群体，对共和党做民主社会主义者正试图对民主党做的事。
Now that warning applies to the G.O.P. The weirdo right will not stop in its attempt to take over the Republican Party, and party leadership must resist it or watch a group that openly declares its contempt for conservatism do to the G.O.P. what the democratic socialists are trying to do to the Democrats.
在2016年竞选期间，罗斯·多塔曾警告称：“如果你不喜欢宗教右翼，那就等着瞧瞧后宗教右翼吧。”十年后，我们已经遇到了它。它借用了觉醒左翼的不满政治、身份迷恋以及对异见的蔑视，并把这一切包装在一种近乎无基督的基督教民族主义外衣之下。它企图成为共和党未来发展的方向。
During the 2016 campaign, Ross Douthat warned, “If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right.”A decade later, we have met it. It has borrowed the grievance politics, the identity obsessions and the contempt for dissent of the woke left, and it has dressed all of that in a rather Christless Christian nationalism. It intends to be the future of the Republican Party.
试想一下，该运动的一些领军人物是如何度过选举前一个月的。连续四周的周一，亿万富翁彼得·蒂尔在纳什维尔的一处共济会会所里，就敌基督发表了演讲。这些讲座吸引了威廉·沃尔夫、安德鲁·伊斯克和约书亚·海姆斯等知名的基督教民族主义者。沃尔夫的“浸信会领袖中心”在网络上煽动群体，攻击那些抵制其项目并对文化发表温和言论的美南浸信会牧师。
Consider how some of its leading lights spent the month before the election. For four consecutive Mondays, Peter Thiel, a billionaire, lectured on the Antichrist at a Masonic lodge in Nashville. The sessions drew William Wolfe, Andrew Isker and Joshua Haymes, prominent Christian nationalists. Mr. Wolfe’s Center for Baptist Leadership rallies online mobs against Southern Baptist pastors who resist his project and offer a gentle word about the culture.
该运动背后的部分资金来自通过出售一家洗发水公司而发家致富查尔斯·海伍德。海伍德曾写道，他首选的政府“将不会是民主的”，女性“将不被允许选择职业而非家庭”，男性“如果不承担‘沉重惩罚’，将不被允许选择不要家庭”。他曾满怀热情地赞美西班牙独裁者弗朗西斯科·弗朗哥。据报道，自2022年以来，他的基金会已向克莱蒙特研究所提供近40万美元的资金，并资助了致力于夺回基督教机构的出版物《美国改革者》，以及在万斯支持下成立的政府人事输送机构“美国时刻”。
Some of the funding behind this movement comes from Charles Haywood, who made his fortune selling a shampoo company. Mr. Haywood has written that his preferred government “will not be democratic,” that women “will not be permitted to choose career over family” and that men “will not be permitted to choose not to have a family” without “significant penalties.”He has written glowingly of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. His foundation has reportedly given the Claremont Institute nearly $400,000 since 2022, and it has funded American Reformer, a publication devoted to recapturing Christian institutions, and American Moment, a government staffing pipeline founded with JD Vance’s support.
内特·费舍尔（Nate Fischer）是“美国改革者”（American Reformer）的创始人之一，并经营着“新创立”（New Founding）风险投资公司。他属于海伍德先生的全男士兄弟会组织，并发表了该组织的使命宣言，承诺在发生政权更迭时物色一帮现成的意识形态拥护者。乔什·阿伯托伊（Josh Abbotoy）是“美国改革者”的共同创始人，他曾写道，美国将需要一个“新教的弗朗哥”。在同一运动中，乔尔·韦本（Joel Webbon）等牧师则主张废除美国宪法第十九修正案。
Nate Fischer, who is a founder of American Reformer and runs the venture capital firm New Founding, belongs to Mr. Haywood’s men-only fraternal order and published its mission statement, which promise to curate a pool of ready-made ideologues in the case of regime change. Josh Abbotoy, who co-founded American Reformer, has written that America will need a “Protestant Franco.”In the same movement, pastors such as Joel Webbon argue for repealing the 19th Amendment.
这群人的思想严肃性在2024年受到了考验。詹姆斯·林赛（James Lindsay）当时是一名无神论挑衅者，他用新右翼的词汇对《共产党宣言》进行了轻微改写，并以化名将其提交给“美国改革者”。文章开头写道：“一个上升的精神正在游荡美国，那是真正的基督教右翼的精神。”“美国改革者”将其发表了。当林赛先生揭露这场恶作剧时，该出版物仍将这篇文章保留在网站上，并称其为对新右翼思想的合理集合。
The intellectual seriousness of this crowd was tested in 2024. James Lindsay, then an atheist provocateur, lightly rewrote “The Communist Manifesto” in the vocabulary of the New Right and submitted it to American Reformer under a pseudonym. “A rising spirit is haunting America,” it began, “the spirit of a true Christian Right.”American Reformer published it. When Mr. Lindsay revealed the hoax, the publication kept the piece online and called it a reasonable aggregation of New Right ideas.
这些人不是保守派。他们是拥有不同敌对目标的进步派。我所在的宗派——美国长老会（Presbyterian Church in America）——禁止“美国改革者”在其年度会议上设立参展摊位，这是完全正确的。
These are not conservatives. They are progressives with a different set of enemies. My own denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America, barred American Reformer from having an exhibitor booth at its annual meeting, and it was right to do so.
这个群体押注副总统詹姆斯·戴维·万斯（JD Vance）的未来，将其视为实现他们想要的变革的代理人。在耶路撒冷举行的一次“国家保守主义”会议上（该会议恰好在10月7日大屠杀周年纪念日举行），沃尔夫先生表示，“詹姆斯·戴维·万斯是我们的自己人”。据罗德·德雷尔（Rod Dreher）透露，他当时还暗示保守派美国犹太人应当知道自己的位置。
This group is invested in the future of Vice President JD Vance as the agent of the change they want. At a National Conservatism conference in Jerusalem, which happened to be held on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, Mr. Wolfe said that “JD Vance is our guy.”According to Rod Dreher, he also suggested that conservative American Jews should know their place.
就万斯先生而言，他一直在培植怪异右翼，而不是与其对抗。他似乎在顺水推舟。甚至在塔克·卡尔森（Tucker Carlson）倒戈反对特朗普总统并继续为主流反犹太主义阴谋论推波助澜之后，万斯先生也没有与怪异右翼保持真正的距离。
Mr. Vance, for his part, has cultivated the weirdo right rather than confront it. He appears to be going along for the ride. Even after Tucker Carlson turned on President Trump and kept mainstreaming antisemitic conspiracy theories, Mr. Vance has not put any real distance between himself and the weirdo right.
那些谈论基督教民族主义最多的人，最不在乎基督实际的教诲。他们在印刷品上辩称，“爱你们的仇敌”并不适用于他们的政治对手。
The men who talk most about Christian nationalism have the least use for what Christ actually commanded. They have argued in print that “love your enemies” does not extend to their political opponents.
普通美国人不想要这些，周二他们用选票表达了这一立场。尽管中期选举结果已出，但由一群喧嚣的基督教民族主义者、兜售不满情绪者及其他人组成的“怪胎右翼”反应却是坚持在经济保护主义和意图通过行政权力进行治理的重手行政权上加倍下注。更多的同类做法只会导致进一步被拒绝。
Normal Americans want none of it, and on Tuesday they said so. Despite the midterm results, the reaction on the weirdo right, led by a vocal group of Christian nationalists, grievance-mongers and others, has been to insist on doubling down on economic protectionism and a heavy-handed executive intent on governance through executive power. More of the same will lead only to further rejection.
如果共和党想赢回这些选民，该党领导人——始于那位想在2028年领导该党的人——将不得不拒绝“怪胎右翼”的要求。佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯能够治理一个多族裔、多种族的州，组建了一个以能力置于梗图大战和对美国凯撒的要求之上的获胜联盟。佐治亚州州长布赖恩·坎普、得克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特以及其他更专注于本州事务、较少参与群聊的共和党人也是如此。
If Republicans want those voters back, the party’s leaders, beginning with the man who wants to lead it in 2028, will have to reject the demands of the weirdo right. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida was able to govern a multiethnic and multiracial state with a winning coalition that put competence above meme wars and demands for American Caesars. So too have Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia, Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas and other Republicans focused more on their states and less on group chats.
在共和党拒绝怪诞、边缘和兜售不满情绪的投机分子之前，民主党将乐于提醒选民，共和党留下了什么样的人。桑是其同名广播节目的主持人。
Until the G.O.P. rejects the weird, the fringe and the grievance hustlers, Democrats will happily remind voters whom the G.O.P. keeps around. son is the host of his namesake radio show.