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新聞周刊:特朗普是如何打出(白人)種族牌并重塑民主黨的(6)

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Trump called the midterm results a “tremendous success.” Republicans clearly felt the sting anyway. In January, when Representative Steve King set his career on fire by questioning how terms like “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” had “become offensive,” GOP leaders quickly condemned his comments. Their action was remarkable, given that they had mostly ignored the Iowa congressman’s extensive record of racist statements and dubious associations for more than a decade; just last year, he endorsed a Canadian politician with neo-Nazi ties.

川普稱中期選舉結果是“巨大的成功”?！埠忘h人顯然感到了刺痛。今年1月，當眾議員史蒂夫·金質疑“白人民族主義者”和“白人至上主義者”等詞匯如何“變得具有攻擊性”，他的政治生涯之火被點燃，共和黨領導人迅速譴責了他的言論。他們的行動是引人注目的，因為十多年來，他們基本上忽視了愛荷華州國會議員關于種族主義言論和可疑關聯的大量記錄；就在去年，他還支持了一位與新納粹主義有聯系的加拿大政治家。

The moral authority fell to Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the GOP’s lone black member in the Senate. “Some in our party wonder why Republicans are constantly accused of racism,” he wrote in The Washington Post. “It is because of our silence when things like this are said.”

道德權威落在南卡羅來納州參議員蒂姆斯科特身上，他是共和黨在參議院中唯一的黑人議員?！拔覀凕h內的一些人想知道為什么共和黨人總是被指責為種族主義，” 他在《華盛頓郵報》上撰文道。“正是因為我們的沉默才說出了這樣的話?！?/div>

So diversity is the winner, right? Not so fast.

多樣性是贏家，對吧？沒有那么快。

For all the talk about the Democratic rout, there was no clear message from the midterms. Yes, the new House is historically female and diverse. But in eight white working-class House districts in Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Michigan, where Democrats flipped seats away from Republicans, the winners were all white. Haley Stevens, who worked in the Obama administration on rescuing the auto industry and finding jobs for laid-off workers, took Michigan’s 11th from Republicans after half a century. But she soon distanced herself from her progressive colleagues in February, after she was asked about what one voter saw as the anti-Semitism of her pro-Palestinian fellow freshman classmates.

盡管人們都在談論民主黨的潰敗，但中期選舉并沒有傳遞出明確的信息。是的，從歷史上看，這座新眾議院是女性的，包容多樣。但在明尼蘇達州、賓夕法尼亞州和密歇根州的8個白人工薪階層選區，民主黨人從共和黨人手中搶走了席位，獲勝者都是白人。曾在奧巴馬政府中為拯救汽車行業和為下崗工人尋找工作的海莉·史蒂文斯，在半個世紀后作為共和黨一員拿下了第十一區。但今年2月，在她被問及一名選民認為她親巴勒斯坦的大一同學的反猶太主義是什么后，她很快就與進步同事拉開了距離。

Michigan’s 11th and the other seven flipped Midwestern districts are precisely the sort of places Democrats will want to claw back from Trump in 2020. But Democrats now must decide whether they should either write off the white identifiers who hearkened to Trump’s racial messaging, or try to win some of them over, as Obama did. Those who think Democrats don’t need them look to the rapidly changing populations of states like Arizona, Georgia and Texas. Others see a basic math problem: As much as the country is changing, white working-class voters will still make up nearly half of the electorate in 2020. And they are concentrated in the Midwestern states long considered key to Democratic success.

密歇根州的第11區和中西部其他7個翻轉選區正是民主黨人希望在2020年從特朗普手中奪回的地方。但民主黨人現在必須決定，他們是應該無視那些聽到特朗普種族信息的白人標識符，還是像奧巴馬那樣，試圖贏得其中一些標識符的支持。那些認為民主黨人不需要他們的人把目光投向了亞利桑那州、佐治亞州和德克薩斯州等人口迅速變化的州。另一些人則看到了一個基本的數學問題:盡管美國正在發生變化，但到2020年，白人工人階級選民仍將占選民總數的近一半。而且他們集中在長期以來被認為是民主成功關鍵的中西部各州。

All this has led to a mostly hushed conversation among Democrats about race and who they should nominate from a crowded and diverse primary field. “I think it better be a white male,” said Michael Avenatti, the fleeting White House hopeful and pugnacious lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels in an interview with Time last year. “And I don’t say that because I want it to have to be a white male. I say that because of the realities of the situation. If the Democrats nominate anyone other than a white male at the top of the ticket, they’re gonna lose the election. I’d be willing to bet anything.”

所有這一切導致民主黨人之間就種族問題進行了一場幾乎是悄無聲息的對話，以及他們應該從一個擁擠而多樣的初選領域提名誰。“我覺得最好是白人男性，”邁克爾·阿文納蒂去年在接受《時代》如此表示，邁克爾·阿文納蒂曾是白宮充滿希望和戰斗力的短期律師，為情色女演員斯托米·丹尼爾斯辯護。“我這么說不是因為我希望提名者必須是一個白人男性。我這樣說是因為實際情況。如果民主黨提名除了白人男性以外的人擔任總統候選人，他們就會在選舉中失敗。我敢用我的一切打賭?！?/div>

Why? “It’s different when you have a white male making the arguments. They carry more weight,” he said. “Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.”

為什么？“當你有一個白人男性代表在發表意見時，情況就不一樣了。會更有分量，”他說。“應該更有分量嗎？當然不是。但現實呢？確實更有分量?！?/div>

Avenatti soon bowed out of the race after a domestic violence allegation (he denied it and was not charged by prosecutors), but Senator Bernie Sanders struck a similar chord after the midterms, saying that voters in Florida and Georgia grew uneasy with black Democratic candidates for governor amid the race-baiting attacks from their GOP opponents. “There are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American,” he told The Daily Beast.

阿文納蒂很快就退出了競選，因為他被指控家庭暴力(他否認了這一指控，也沒有受到檢察官的指控)，但參議員伯尼·桑德斯在中期選舉后也發出了類似的聲音。他說，佛羅里達州和佐治亞州的選民對民主黨的黑人州長候選人越來越感到不安，因為他們的共和黨對手發起了煽動種族的攻擊?！坝泻芏喟兹瞬⒉灰欢ㄊ欠N族主義者，他們平生第一次對是否要投票給非裔美國人感到不舒服，”他在接受《每日野獸網》采訪時表示。

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