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“Something old and wild and blind at war with man and the works of man” — Poul Anderson
“某种古老、狂野、盲目的东西在与人类和人类的作品交战”——波尔·安德森
Years ago, I thought it was valuable for me to understand the depth of the human capacity for atrocity, so I made myself look at photos and videos of some of the worst things people had done to each other.
几年前，我认为了解人类暴行能力的深度对我来说很有价值，所以我让自己看一些人们对彼此所做的最糟糕的事情的照片和视频。
So in 2015, I made myself watch the full, unedited video of ISIS burning a man alive in a cage.
因此，2015 年，我强迫自己观看了 ISIS 在笼子里活活烧死一名男子的未经编辑的完整视频。
However horrifying that sounds, it was worse.
不管这听起来有多可怕，但情况更糟。
The man stood in the cage and hung his head while masked ISIS fighters all around him sang grim chants.
这名男子站在笼子里，低着头，周围的蒙面伊斯兰国武装分子唱着严峻的口号。
No scripted scene in Game of Thrones could have approached the raw, atavistic horror of that real-life execution.
《权力的游戏》中没有任何剧本场景能够与现实生活中处决的原始、返祖恐怖相媲美。
It was like something out of the ancient world — a human sacrifice on the steps of a temple built to gods long forgotten.
这就像古代世界的某种东西——在一座为早已被遗忘的神灵建造的寺庙的台阶上进行活人祭祀。
I thought of that video when I heard about the Trump administration’s plan to stage a public televised execution by firing squad .
当我听说特朗普政府计划公开电视直播行刑队处决时，我想起了那个视频。
The condemned man, the 2009 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, certainly deserves death, and a firing squad is a relatively humane way to kill a man.
被定罪的男子，即2009年胡德堡枪击案凶手尼达尔·马利克·哈桑（Nidal Malik Hasan），当然该死，而行刑队是一种相对人道的杀人方式。
But to televise this event to the nation seemed like an act of barbarism — the kind of spectacle that was already a disgusting relic when Britain abolished it in 1868 (for the U.S., it took more than 60 more years ).
但通过电视向全国转播这一事件似乎是一种野蛮行径——当英国于 1868 年废除这一制度时，这种奇观已经成为令人厌恶的遗迹（对于美国来说，这又花了 60 多年的时间）。
I was not alone in this opinion.
我并不是唯一一个持这种观点的人。
Except for MAGA Republican men — a slice of a slice of the right-wing base — every segment of American society deeply opposed the idea of shooting Hasan on live TV:
除了MAGA共和党人——右翼基地的一部分——美国社会的每个阶层都强烈反对在电视直播中枪杀哈桑的想法：
Seemingly swayed by the bad polling, Trump cancelled the idea , declaring that the execution wouldn’t be livestreamed.
特朗普似乎受到糟糕的民意调查的影响，取消了这个想法，并宣布不会直播执行死刑。
But the episode has revealed something important about the nature of the men who now rule America.
但这一事件揭示了现在统治美国的人的一些重要本质。
Their values and their worldview are not the same as those of the average American.
他们的价值观和世界观与普通美国人不同。
They are, in many ways, premodern and barbaric.
从很多方面来说，它们都是前现代的、野蛮的。
Public executions actually aren’t a new idea on the right — Charlie Kirk was calling for them years ago .
公开处决实际上对于右翼来说并不是什么新想法——查理·柯克（Charlie Kirk）多年前就呼吁这样做。
Now everyone knows that this wasn’t just empty rhetoric.
现在大家都知道，这不仅仅是一句空话。
It is very important that we understand the New Right.
了解新右派非常重要。
Donald Trump himself is currently in command of the New Right, but not for much longer — he is old, older than Biden was at the same point in his presidency, and already visibly declining .
唐纳德·特朗普本人目前掌管着新右派，但时间不会太长——他已经老了，比拜登在总统任期内同一时期的年纪还要大，而且已经明显衰落。
What’s more, Trump is a singular figure — a charismatic but spectacularly corrupt mafia type with authoritarian tendencies and a worldview mashed together from early-1990s CNN and half-remembered stories of America’s pre-WW2 glory days.
更重要的是，特朗普是一个独特的人物——一个有魅力但极其腐败的黑手党类型，具有独裁倾向，其世界观融合了 20 世纪 90 年代初的 CNN 和人们对二战前美国辉煌岁月的记忆。
There are many reasons Trump is amenable to the New Right, and became their beloved leader and standard-bearer, but he is fundamentally not of them, and when he is gone, it is that ideology , rather than another charismatic figure, which will flow into the vacuum his exit creates .
特朗普顺从新右派并成为他们敬爱的领导人和旗手的原因有很多，但他从根本上来说不属于他们，当他离开时，正是这种意识形态，而不是另一个有魅力的人物，将流入他退出所造成的真空。
Like MAGA now, it will rule through factional politics — the strategy by which a small minority becomes the majority-of-a-majority-of-a-majority .
就像现在的 MAGA 一样，它将通过派系政治进行统治——通过这一策略，少数人成为多数人中的多数人。
The New Right will lack Trump’s charisma, but it will also lack the baggage of his corruption and (possibly) the lingering stink of his policy blunders .
新右派将缺乏特朗普的魅力，但也将缺乏他的腐败包袱以及（可能）他政策失误挥之不去的恶臭。
So it is important that we understand this ideology — not simply because it rules us now, but because we may find a purer version of it ruling us sometime in the not-so-distant future.
因此，我们理解这种意识形态很重要——不仅仅是因为它现在统治着我们，还因为我们可能会在不远的将来发现它的更纯粹的版本统治着我们。
In that post, I argued that the key to understanding the New Right was its conception of “Western Civilization” under siege:
在那篇文章中，我认为理解新右派的关键是其受围攻的“西方文明”概念：
To a large-ish number of Americans, [the New Right] told a coherent story about who they were, where they came from, and what commonalities tied them together.
对大量美国人来说，[新右派]讲述了一个连贯的故事，讲述他们是谁、他们来自哪里以及将他们联系在一起的共同点。
The story it told was about “Western civilization”.
它讲述的故事是关于“西方文明”的。
When I say “Western civilization”, I don’t mean it in the Cold War sense of “the free world”.
当我说“西方文明”时，我指的并不是冷战意义上的“自由世界”。
It doesn’t include Japan or Latin America, and it very much does include Russia.
它不包括日本或拉丁美洲，但在很大程度上包括俄罗斯。
The Western Civilization that the New Right believes in is defined by three things: 1) European racial descent, 2) Christian heritage, and 3) veneration of the previous two things.
新右派信仰的西方文明由三件事定义：1）欧洲种族血统，2）基督教传统，3）对前两者的崇拜。
The third of these is absolutely the key.
其中第三个绝对是关键。
European descent and Christian heritage define “Western” for the New Right, but respect for those things defines “civilization”.
欧洲血统和基督教传统为新右派定义了“西方”，但对这些东西的尊重定义了“文明”。
If you created an all-white country, and it was full of blue-haired genderqueer atheist decolonial-leftist white people, that would be anathema to the New Right…Nor are the New Right typically pious or born-again Christians…[Christianity is] more of a source of shared heritage, and a boundary that demarcates historical Europe from the rest of the world.
如果你创建了一个全是白人的国家，并且里面充满了蓝头发的性别酷儿、无神论者、非殖民左翼白人，那将是新右派的诅咒……新右派也不是典型的虔诚或重生的基督徒……[基督教]更多的是共享遗产的来源，以及划分历史欧洲与世界其他地区的边界。
It’s less about Christ than about Christendom .
与其说是关于基督，不如说是关于基督教世界。
This concept explains why the New Right cares so much about Europe.
这个概念解释了为什么新右派如此关心欧洲。
It’s important to realize that this is new .
重要的是要认识到这是新的。
The Old Old Right — the right wing of 1910 or 1935 — was explicitly isolationist toward Europe.
老右派——1910 年或 1935 年的右翼——对欧洲持明确的孤立主义态度。
Not only did they vigorously advocate against U.S. involvement in European wars, but they viewed the waves of South and East European immigration as fundamentally alien — a threat to the cultural and racial purity of America.
他们不仅极力反对美国卷入欧洲战争，而且认为南欧和东欧移民浪潮从根本上来说是外来的，是对美国文化和种族纯洁性的威胁。
Francis Walker called those immigrants “ beaten men from beaten races ”, and most of the restrictionism of the period — especially the famous immigration law of 1924 — was explicitly aimed at choking off the flow of people from places like Poland, Italy, and Greece.
弗朗西斯·沃克 (Francis Walker) 称这些移民是“被击败的种族中的被击败者”，而这一时期的大部分限制主义——尤其是著名的 1924 年移民法——明确旨在阻止来自波兰、意大利和希腊等地的人口流动。
You can see faint echoes of that old anti-European sentiment in Trump’s desire to withdraw from NATO.
你可以在特朗普退出北约的愿望中看到那种古老的反欧洲情绪的微弱回响。
But overall, the New Right cares much more about Europe than any incarnation of the Right in American history ever has before.
但总体而言，新右翼比美国历史上任何右翼的化身都更加关心欧洲。
They view America and Europe as fundamentally unified — belonging to a single civilization with a single common heritage, ethos, and culture.
他们认为美国和欧洲从根本上是统一的——属于同一个文明，拥有共同的遗产、精神和文化。
Here’s Marco Rubio in February at the Munich Security Conference :
这是马可·卢比奥二月份在慕尼黑安全会议上的讲话：
For the United States and Europe, we belong together.
对于美国和欧洲来说，我们是一体的。
America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before.
美国已于 250 年前建立，但其根源早已在这片大陆上扎根。
The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new…We are part of one civilization – Western civilization.
定居和建设我出生的国家的人来到我们的海岸，带着他们祖先的记忆、传统和基督教信仰作为神圣的遗产，作为旧世界和新世界之间牢不可破的联系……我们是同一个文明——西方文明的一部分。
We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
我们通过各国之间可以共享的最深厚的纽带联系在一起，这种纽带是由几个世纪的共同历史、基督教信仰、文化、遗产、语言、血统以及我们的祖先为我们继承的共同文明共同做出的牺牲而铸就的。
The Trump administration and the MAGA movement are obsessed with the idea that immigration — primarily from Muslim countries — is destroying the birthplace of Western Civilization, aided and abetted by leftist ideology among the European elite.
特朗普政府和 MAGA 运动痴迷于这样一种观点，即移民——主要来自穆斯林国家——正在摧毁西方文明的发源地，而欧洲精英中的左翼意识形态则在帮助和怂恿。
This is from a Hegseth speech in June , commemorating the Normandy landings: 1
这是赫格斯六月的一次演讲，纪念诺曼底登陆：1
Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies…Beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece, and Bulgaria.
可悲的是，今天，不同的欧洲海滩受到不同危险意识形态的袭击……西班牙、意大利、希腊和保加利亚的海滩。
Boats and men arrive.
船和人都到了。
When will European capitals do something about that invasion, or is it too late?
欧洲各国政府什么时候才能对这次入侵采取行动，还是为时已晚？
[I]n a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people.
为了追求一个无国界的世界，我们向前所未有的大规模移民浪潮敞开了大门，这威胁着我们社会的凝聚力、我们文化的连续性和我们人民的未来。
We made these mistakes together, and now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild…Mass migration…was and continues to be a crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West.
我们一起犯了这些错误，现在，我们有责任让我们的人民一起面对这些事实，继续前进，重建……大规模移民……过去是、现在仍然是一场危机，正在改变和破坏整个西方社会的稳定。
Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration…How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction?…No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
在代表这里的各国所面临的所有紧迫挑战中，我相信没有什么比大规模移民更紧迫的了……在我们改变路线并将我们共同的文明带向新的方向之前，我们必须遭受多少次这些可怕的挫折？……这个大陆上没有一个选民去投票箱向数百万未经审查的移民打开闸门。
The core belief of the New Right, in other words, is that Western Civilization is being invaded by barbarians — people from non-Western civilizations, who come to the West under the guise of immigration and then proceed to try to overthrow the West from within, with the aid of local leftists and progressive elites.
换句话说，新右派的核心信念是，西方文明正在受到野蛮人——来自非西方文明的人们的入侵，他们打着移民的幌子来到西方，然后在当地左派和进步精英的帮助下，试图从内部推翻西方。
This worldview has been reinforced by a constant stream of news from Europe, which American rightists follow assiduously and comment on constantly .
这种世界观因来自欧洲的源源不断的消息而得到强化，而美国右翼人士则孜孜不倦地关注并不断发表评论。
Islamist terror attacks in Europe are rarer than far-right extremist attacks, but cause far more deaths .
欧洲的伊斯兰恐怖袭击比极右极端主义袭击更为罕见，但造成的死亡人数却要多得多。
Migrants from Muslim countries are responsible for a very disproportionate number of sexual assaults in countries like Sweden.
在瑞典等国家，来自穆斯林国家的移民对大量性侵犯负有责任。
And there are periodic riots in France, often initiated by students, leftists, and various unaffiliated angry folks, but disproportionately joined by poor people from immigrant backgrounds living in ghetto-like areas.
法国定期发生骚乱，通常是由学生、左翼分子和各种无党派的愤怒人士发起的，但不成比例地加入了居住在贫民区的移民背景的穷人。
The most recent round of such disturbances is currently gripping the nation and generating a bunch of apocalyptic videos:
最近一轮此类骚乱目前正在席卷全国，并产生了一系列世界末日视频：
Incidents like this have steadily increased support for the European right, which promises mass deportations and has explicitly positioned itself as the defender of Western civilization :
此类事件使欧洲右翼的支持稳步增加，该右翼许诺大规模驱逐出境，并明确将自己定位为西方文明的捍卫者：
America’s New Right views itself as closely allied with the European right — perhaps even one and the same.
美国的新右翼认为自己与欧洲右翼紧密结盟——甚至可能是同一阵营。
Elon Musk does everything he can to support Germany’s AfD , and JD Vance has met with them .
埃隆·马斯克 (Elon Musk) 竭尽全力支持德国选择党 (AfD)，JD 万斯 (JD Vance) 已与他们会面。
JD Vance campaigned (unsuccessfully) for Hungary’s Viktor Orban .
JD 万斯 (JD Vance) 为匈牙利的维克托·欧尔班 (Viktor Orban) 竞选（未成功）。
Trump has often voiced support for France’s Le Pen , and so on.
特朗普经常表态支持法国勒庞等等。
It’s a regular Western Civilization Internationale.
这是一场常规的西方文明国际歌。
The European right has been ambivalent about this support; Trump’s extreme unpopularity in Europe means that his embrace is often detrimental to the European right’s electoral prospects.
欧洲右翼对这种支持态度矛盾。特朗普在欧洲极不受欢迎，这意味着他的拥护往往不利于欧洲右翼的选举前景。
Nor is there much evidence that Americans link Europe’s immigration problems with the immigration issue in the United States — pro-immigrant attitudes have surged in America since Trump returned to power, and the President is underwater on the issue .
也没有太多证据表明美国人将欧洲的移民问题与美国的移民问题联系起来——自特朗普重新掌权以来，美国的支持移民态度高涨，而总统在这个问题上却陷入困境。
Regular Americans simply do not see Europe and America as a single, unified civilizational entity.
普通美国人根本不认为欧洲和美国是一个单一的、统一的文明实体。
They do not view riots on the streets of Paris as a dark portent of riots on the streets of Houston.
他们并不认为巴黎街头的骚乱是休斯顿街头骚乱的黑暗预兆。
They do not see their Guatemalan housecleaners as rapists or terrorists.
他们并不认为危地马拉的清洁工是强奸犯或恐怖分子。
They are not invested in the political fortunes of Alternative für Deutschland or Marine Le Pen or Restore Britain.
他们没有投资于德国另类选择党、马琳·勒庞或复兴英国的政治命运。
These are fringe beliefs, core to the worldview of the New Right but utterly peripheral and irrelevant to the typical resident of Michigan or North Carolina.
这些都是边缘信仰，是新右派世界观的核心，但与密歇根或北卡罗来纳州的典型居民完全无关。
And these fringe beliefs help explain why the New Right has embraced a savage, atavistic morality that’s deeply at odds with the decency of regular Americans.
这些边缘信仰有助于解释为什么新右派拥护一种野蛮的、返祖的道德观，这种道德观与普通美国人的正派观念大相径庭。
The New Right’s embrace of savagery did not begin with the proposed livestreaming of Nidal Malik Hasan’s execution.
新右派对野蛮行为的拥抱并不是从提议直播尼达尔·马利克·哈桑的处决开始的。
For many years, I have been watching commentators in this movement claim that the American right needs to become tougher, more vicious, and more brutal — and that conservatism has been hamstrung by excessive niceness and tolerance in the past.
多年来，我一直看到这场运动的评论员声称美国右翼需要变得更强硬、更恶毒、更残酷——过去的过度友善和宽容已经削弱了保守主义的力量。
For example, here was Jesse Kelly in 2022 :
例如，这是 2022 年的杰西·凯利：
You communists simply got way too comfortable with the ‘live and let live’ Right.
你们共产党人简直太接受“自生自灭”的权利了。
You’re gonna have a tough time adjusting to The New Right.
你会很难适应新右派。
Your names and accusations mean nothing to us.
你的名字和指控对我们来说毫无意义。
You can’t use our values against us.
你不能用我们的价值观来反对我们。
We’re enemies.
我们是敌人。
Game on,” posted Kelly on social media…I’m not a Republican.
比赛开始，”凯利在社交媒体上发帖说……我不是共和党人。
I’m not ‘better than that’.
我并不‘比那更好’。
I’m a monster.
我是一个怪物。
I believe in hitting people who hit me.
我相信打那些打我的人。
We’ve turned the other cheek, and I understand, sort of, the biblical reference — I understand the mentality — but it’s gotten us nothing.
我们已经把另一边脸转过去了，我在某种程度上理解圣经的参考——我理解这种心态——但它没有给我们带来任何好处。
OK?
可以吗？
It’s gotten us nothing while we’ve ceded ground in every major institution in our country.
当我们在我们国家的每一个主要机构中让出阵地时，它并没有给我们带来任何好处。
In his famous essay “ The Flight 93 Election ”, widely viewed as a founding manifesto of the New Right, Michael Anton says conservatives have been meeker than “fearful, beaten dogs”, and declares that they “bend over backward to play by the self-sabotaging rules the Left sets for them”.
迈克尔·安东 (Michael Anton) 的著名文章《93 号航班选举》被广泛视为新右派的创始宣言，他在这篇文章中表示，保守派比“可怕的、被打败的狗”还要温顺，并宣称他们“竭尽全力地遵循左派为他们制定的自我破坏的规则”。
Less elegantly written screeds by Kurt Schlichter , Glenn Ellmers , and others all make the same argument.
库尔特·施利希特 (Kurt Schlichter)、格伦·埃尔默斯 (Glenn Ellmers) 和其他人写的不太优雅的长文都提出了同样的论点。
American rightists have also begun to heap praise on historical rightist leaders whom they view as having achieved effectiveness through savagery.
美国右翼分子也开始大肆赞扬历史上的右翼领导人，他们认为这些领导人是通过野蛮行径取得了成效。
The two they typically cite are Spain’s Francisco Franco and Chile’s Augusto Pinochet .
他们通常引用的两位是西班牙的弗朗西斯科·佛朗哥和智利的奥古斯托·皮诺切特。
Recently, though, we’ve started to see another name creep back into rightist discourse:
不过，最近，我们开始看到另一个名字重新出现在右翼话语中：
One would think that the disastrous results Adolf Hitler produced for Germany, Western Civilization, and the European Right would make American rightists wary of carrying out apologetics on his behalf.
人们可能会认为，阿道夫·希特勒给德国、西方文明和欧洲右翼造成的灾难性后果会让美国右翼分子对为他辩护持谨慎态度。
But no:
但没有：
Whether American rightists believe in Hitler’s ideology or want to emulate his policies is beside the point here.
美国右翼分子是否相信希特勒的意识形态，或者想效仿他的政策，这不是重点。
The real lesson is that by invoking Hitler, rightists can paint themselves as tough, savage, and ruthless.
真正的教训是，通过援引希特勒，右翼分子可以把自己描绘成强硬、野蛮和无情的人。
A pattern should begin to emerge here.
这里应该开始出现一种模式。
Leftists are famously obsessed with ideological purity ; when Democrats lose, leftists always claim that it was because they were too moderate, or compromised their principles, or failed to energize the working class by promising real change, etc. Rightists, on the other hand, are obsessed with toughness.
众所周知，左派痴迷于意识形态的纯洁性。当民主党失败时，左派总是声称这是因为他们太温和，或者妥协了原则，或者未能通过承诺真正的变革来激励工人阶级等等。而右派却痴迷于强硬。
If Republicans lose, it was because they were too meek, too bound by liberal norms.
如果共和党失败了，那是因为他们太温顺，太受自由主义规范的束缚。
Repeated failures, to rightists, are nothing but an infinite regress of boxing gloves that they were too afraid to take off.
一次又一次的失败，对于右派来说，无非是他们不敢摘下的拳击手套的无限倒退。
This explains the proposed televised execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.
这解释了为何电视转播处决尼达尔·马利克·哈桑的提议。
Rightists view Hasan — a Palestinian American who served in the U.S. military but murdered his fellow servicemembers because he was angry about America killing Muslims in Afghanistan — as typical of the invading anti-Western barbarian horde.
右翼分子将哈桑视为入侵的反西方野蛮部落的典型。哈桑是一名巴勒斯坦裔美国人，曾在美国军队服役，但因为对美国在阿富汗杀害穆斯林感到愤怒而谋杀了自己的战友。
By executing him on live TV, they probably thought they could demonstrate that the West can be equally savage in its own defense.
通过在电视直播中处决他，他们可能认为可以证明西方在自己的防御中也可以同样野蛮。
Physical toughness and traditional masculinity are not the same thing as brutality, obviously, but these antics demonstrate the same general obsession with showing that the Men of the West are no weaklings.
显然，身体的坚韧和传统的男子气概与残暴不是一回事，但这些滑稽的动作表现出同样普遍的痴迷，表明西方男人不是弱者。
And of course, the rightist obsession with toughness explains part of the romance between Trump and Russia.
当然，右翼对强硬的痴迷解释了特朗普与俄罗斯之间的浪漫关系。
There are many reasons that Trump has chosen to shift America’s allegiance from Europe to Russia, of course.
当然，特朗普选择将美国的效忠对象从欧洲转向俄罗斯有很多原因。
Given the President’s stupendous, unprecedented corruption , I would be very surprised if there were not some financial ties involved.
鉴于总统的腐败程度惊人、史无前例，如果其中没有涉及一些经济关系，我会感到非常惊讶。
But rightists also tend to see Putin’s Russia as the living instantiation of Western toughness — savage, unrestrained, unconcerned with humanitarian softness or the rules of war.
但右翼分子也倾向于将普京领导下的俄罗斯视为西方强硬态度的活生生的体现——野蛮、无拘无束、不关心人道主义的软弱或战争规则。
Republicans have been oohing and ahhing over Russia’s hypermasculine military recruitment ads for years, despite the fact that the Ukrainians inflict many more casualties on the Russians than vice versa.
多年来，共和党人一直对俄罗斯过于男性化的征兵广告赞不绝口，尽管事实上乌克兰给俄罗斯造成的伤亡比俄罗斯给乌克兰造成的伤亡要多得多。
Push-ups and big biceps don’t win wars — nor do massacres and war crimes — but they comfort American rightists with the knowledge that somewhere out there are White, culturally Christian men who can match the hordes of the Middle East in savagery.
俯卧撑和大二头肌不会赢得战争，屠杀和战争罪也不会赢得战争，但它们让美国右翼人士感到安慰，因为他们知道，在某个地方，有白人、基督教文化的男人可以在野蛮方面与中东的部落相媲美。
If you wonder why Trump is canceling Congressionally mandated sanctions on Russia , urging Europe to buy more Russian gas, ordering the military to cut off Starshield satellite communications for the Ukrainians defending their homes from Russian drones, and discussing various joint economic projects with Russia…well, this is the reason.
如果你想知道特朗普为何取消国会授权的对俄罗斯制裁，敦促欧洲购买更多俄罗斯天然气，命令军方切断乌克兰人保卫家园免受俄罗斯无人机侵害的星盾卫星通信，以及与俄罗斯讨论各种联合经济项目……好吧，这就是原因。
It’s probably not the only reason.
这可能不是唯一的原因。
But if it were purely a matter of Trump’s personal corruption, his team would not be so eager to go along with all this pro-Russia stuff, especially given how unpopular it is with the American people.
但如果这纯粹是特朗普个人腐败的问题，他的团队就不会那么热衷于支持所有这些亲俄罗斯的东西，特别是考虑到它在美国人民中多么不受欢迎。
The MAGA ideology views Russia as a civilizational ally against the true enemy — an EU they believe to be captured by leftists and bent on destroying Western Civilization through mass importation of anti-Western immigrants.
MAGA意识形态将俄罗斯视为对抗真正敌人的文明盟友——他们认为欧盟已被左翼分子俘虏，并决心通过大规模输入反西方移民来摧毁西方文明。
And Russia’s savagery and attitude of toughness both on and off the battlefield provide America’s rightists with an ideal to aspire to.
而俄罗斯在战场内外的野蛮和强硬态度，为美国右翼分子提供了一个向往的理想。
This Russian propagandist basically summed up how the rightists see the world right now:
这位俄罗斯宣传员基本上概括了右翼分子目前的世界观：
The rightists’ embrace of savagery, of course, is not just about aesthetics, or about psyching themselves up to do the horrible things that deep down they suspect must be done.
当然，右派对野蛮的拥抱不仅仅是为了美观，也不仅仅是为了鼓起勇气去做那些他们内心深处认为必须做的可怕的事情。
It’s also a way to give them confidence in the face of their own unpopularity.
这也是让他们在自己不受欢迎的情况下充满信心的一种方式。
Rightist figures are deeply unpopular in America .
右派人物在美国极不受欢迎。
Their main policy idea — remaking American policy to ethnically reengineer the American populace — has very little purchase.
他们的主要政策理念——重塑美国政策，对美国民众进行种族再造——几乎没有什么说服力。
Everyone in America still thinks Hitler was the worst .
美国每个人仍然认为希特勒是最糟糕的。
The obsession with Europe, and with their idea of Western Civilization, is a niche, alien thing.
对欧洲以及他们对西方文明的痴迷是一种小众的、陌生的东西。
And they’re losing the young generation of men:
他们正在失去年轻一代的男性：
The only way for rightists to sustain the illusion that they would have the upper hand in a post-democratic America — that they would triumph in the climactic civil war that suffuses their perfervid daydreams — is to imagine themselves as a diamond-hard vanguard, a small fist of ruthless men who can defeat any number of effeminate, emasculated enemies, the “three percent” who are willing to pick up a gun and kill.
右翼分子要维持他们将在后民主美国占据上风的幻想——他们将在充斥着他们狂热白日梦的高潮内战中取得胜利——的唯一方法就是把自己想象成一个钻石般坚硬的先锋队，一个由冷酷无情的人组成的小拳头，他们可以击败任何数量的女性化、阉割的敌人，即愿意拿起枪杀人的“百分之三”。
That fantasy is a dangerous one.
这种幻想是危险的。
You can end up doing some very stupid things if you think you’re the only wolf in a world full of sheep.
如果你认为自己是这个充满羊的世界中唯一的狼，你最终可能会做一些非常愚蠢的事情。
A successful movement needs broad popular appeal, not just the willingness to out-barbarize the enemy.
一场成功的运动需要广泛的民众吸引力，而不仅仅是压制敌人的意愿。
But the New Right appears set on pursuing the strategy it has laid out for itself, and all we the rest of us can do is to understand how they think, and prepare for their next mistake.
但新右派似乎决心推行它为自己制定的战略，而我们其他人所能做的就是了解他们的想法，并为他们的下一个错误做好准备。
It’s interesting that Hegseth says that “today…European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies”.
有趣的是，赫格斯说“今天……欧洲海滩受到不同危险意识形态的袭击”。
What dangerous ideologies did he think were storming the beaches of Normandy in 1944?
他认为 1944 年席卷诺曼底海滩的危险意识形态是什么？