Mr Abbott’s pandemic management has followed a similar pattern. Having covered his right flank, he has ended up in a pretty reasonable place—as indicated by the fact that he is now being criticised most harshly by the crazy right. By permitting local authorities to force companies to use masks, the governor showed “who he is, a traitor to liberty and our constitution,” tweeted a Republican state representative named Jonathan Stickland last week. Someone should tell Mr Stickland how that sort of nonsense is working out for Mr Trump: the president is currently in a tie for Texas with Joe Biden, which raises a possibility of Texas’s state house going Democratic for the first time since 2001.
雅培的疫情管理也遵循了類似的模式。在掩護了他的右翼之后，他最終在一個相當合理的位置上結束了管理，正如他現在正受到瘋狂右翼最嚴厲的譴責所表明的那樣。上周，一位名叫喬納森·斯蒂克蘭的共和黨州代表在推特上寫道，這位州長通過允許地方當局強迫企業使用口罩，展現了“他是誰，是自由和我們憲法的叛徒”有人應該告訴斯蒂克蘭，這種謬論對特朗普來說意味著什么的：總統目前與喬·拜登在德克薩斯州處于平局，這增加了德克薩斯州眾議院自2001年以來首次走向民主的可能性。
Mr Abbott’s judiciously disguised pragmatism looks like his party’s best hope of avoiding that fate. It has made him popular in a divided state. His approval rating is 63%, 12 points higher than the president's. It has also won him the confidence of the conservative donors who may need to spend unprecedented sums in November to shore up the Republican ballot in Texas.
雅培謹慎偽裝的實用主義看起來是共和黨避免這種命運的最大希望。這使他在一個分歧的州很受歡迎。他的支持率為63%，比總統高出12個百分點。這也為他贏得了保守派捐贈者的信心，他們可能需要在11月花費前所未有的資金來支持德克薩斯州的共和黨選票。
His qualified success also offers his party pointers for the post- Trump future that may be looming over it. In a rapidly diversifying society—nationally as well as in Texas—the Republicans will have to expand their appeal to keep winning elections. Yet it may well take a fire-breathing conservative (or ostensibly one, at least) to effect the shift. Who knows? Perhaps Mr Abbott could even be that fire-breather: defeat for Mr Trump would arguably make him the Republicans’ foremost leader. But that feels like a remote possibility at most. For now the governor has a real-life catastrophe to worry about
他合格的成功也為他的政黨指出了特朗普時代之后即將來臨的未來。在一個快速多樣化的國家以及德克薩斯州中，共和黨人必須擴大他們的吸引力，以繼續贏得選舉。然而，要實現這一轉變，很可能需要一個具有攻擊性的保守派（至少表面上是這樣）。誰知道呢？或許雅培甚至可以成為那個呼火者：特朗普的失敗可以說將使他成為共和黨最重要的領導人。但這感覺最多是一個遙遠的可能性。目前，州長要擔心現實生活中的災難
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