Trump’s Moral Squalor
The Democrats’ focus on affordability seems to be a winning strategy (we’ll know for sure in a little over two weeks).
民主党对负担能力的关注似乎是一个获胜策略（我们将在两周多一点后知道）。
But we mustn’t lose sight of the moral squalor at the core of the Trump regime.
但我们绝不能忽视特朗普政权核心的道德败坏。
It’s that moral squalor — the utter disregard for the opinions, norms, and ideals of the nation or, for that matter, of humanity — that uniquely marks Trump and the reprobates he has attracted to Washington.
正是这种道德败坏——完全无视国家或人类的观点、规范和理想——是特朗普和他吸引到华盛顿的恶棍的独特标志。
It has also poisoned much of the Republican Party, including the billionaires and tech bros who finance it.
它还毒害了共和党的大部分人，包括为其提供资金的亿万富翁和科技兄弟。
To put this despicable era behind us, we’ll need to renounce and reverse this squalor.
为了摆脱这个卑鄙的时代，我们需要放弃并扭转这种肮脏的局面。
What are loosely described as Trump’s “conflicts of interest,” for example, extend way beyond enriching himself from his presidency.
例如，被笼统地描述为特朗普的“利益冲突”的范围远远超出了他从总统任期中致富的范围。
He has violated the basic norms of presidential decency.
他违反了总统礼仪的基本准则。
He just decided to host the Group of 20 annual summit of world leaders at his private golf club in Miami in December.
他刚刚决定于 12 月在迈阿密的私人高尔夫俱乐部主办 20 国集团世界领导人年度峰会。
When he sought to do this during his first term, it was viewed as a blatant violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
当他在第一个任期内试图这样做时，这被视为公然违反宪法的薪酬条款。
Now, after America’s moral sensibilities have been numbed by Trump’s appetite for foreign gifts — such as Qatar’s “donation” of a $400 million jumbo jet — it barely merits a mention.
现在，在美国的道德情感因特朗普对外国礼物的胃口而麻木之后——例如卡塔尔“捐赠”了一架价值 4 亿美元的大型喷气式飞机——它几乎不值得一提。
He sells advance notice of his market-altering announcements for $100,000 a month, thereby profiting by tipping off people who trade on the information before it becomes publicly available.
他每月以 10 万美元的价格出售其改变市场的公告的预先通知，从而通过在信息公开之前向利用该信息进行交易的人进行通风报信来获利。
He files a trademark application for “Trump TV” to control the name of a streaming service that the White House uses for official presidential communications, thereby pocketing the benefits from taxpayer funds used to create and run the channel.
他提交了“特朗普电视”的商标申请，以控制白宫用于总统官方通讯的流媒体服务的名称，从而将用于创建和运营该频道的纳税人资金中的利益收入囊中。
His family-backed crypto firm introduces a stablecoin just months before he signs legislation promoting it.
就在他签署推广稳定币的立法几个月前，他的家族支持的加密公司推出了一种稳定币。
His wife is paid tens of millions for a self-promotional film by Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, a federal contractor and major retailer subject to a myriad of regulations.
他的妻子因杰夫·贝索斯 (Jeff Bezos) 的亚马逊 (Amazon) 的自我宣传电影而获得了数千万美元的报酬，亚马逊是联邦承包商和大型零售商，受到无数法规的约束。
His son has a Russian oligarch, close to Putin, pick up the tab for part of his wedding afterparty in the Bahamas.
他的儿子有一位与普京关系密切的俄罗斯寡头为他在巴哈马举行的婚礼后的派对买单。
He arranges for the Justice Department to grant him and his family immunity for any back taxes and penalties they might owe.
他安排司法部给予他和他的家人可能欠下的任何欠税和罚款的豁免权。
And so on.
等等。
Trump has tossed away all constraints on making money off his presidency “because I got no credit in the first term” and “I found out that nobody cared.”
特朗普抛弃了所有从他的总统任期中赚钱的限制，“因为我在第一任期没有得到任何荣誉”，而且“我发现没人关心”。
Credit?
信用？
Someone who is entrusted with the highest office in the land must receive “credit” for doing what’s right, in order to continue doing what’s right?
被任命为国家最高职位的人必须因做正确的事而获得“荣誉”，才能继续做正确的事？
Nobody cares?
没人关心吗？
A president can embrace corruption if the public doesn’t mind?
如果公众不介意，总统可以拥抱腐败吗？
It’s not just the blatant self-dealing.
这不仅仅是公然的自我交易。
His moral squalor extends to every aspect of governing.
他的道德败坏延伸到治理的各个方面。
His foreign policies make Henry Kissinger’s realpolitik seem principled by comparison.
相比之下，他的外交政策使亨利·基辛格的现实政治显得更有原则。
He orders the abduction of the president of another nation, installs a new president of his choosing, and announces he’s taking that nation’s oil — and doesn’t even account for what he does with the oil money.
他下令绑架另一个国家的总统，任命一位自己选择的新总统，并宣布他将夺取该国的石油——甚至没有说明他如何使用石油资金。
He attacks Iran without consulting America’s traditional allies or even Congress.
他在没有咨询美国传统盟友甚至国会的情况下攻击伊朗。
Eager to reduce diesel prices (which are hurting Republicans in the midterms), he turns his back on Ukraine and sides with Putin, the aggressor in that conflict — making a deal to import Russian diesel fuel (a windfall for Putin who can now bomb Ukraine even harder) while demanding that Ukraine stop attacking Russian oil refineries.
由于急于降低柴油价格（这会在中期选举中伤害共和党），他背弃了乌克兰，站在冲突中的侵略者普京一边——达成协议进口俄罗斯柴油（对普京来说是一笔意外之财，现在他可以对乌克兰进行更猛烈的轰炸），同时要求乌克兰停止攻击俄罗斯炼油厂。
Trump then blames Ukraine president Zelenskyy for high oil prices rather than Trump’s own war with Iran, and says Ukraine should get a new president.
特朗普随后将高油价归咎于乌克兰总统泽伦斯基，而不是特朗普自己与伊朗的战争，并表示乌克兰应该选出一位新总统。
The squalor also extends to usurping the authority of Congress to decide on tariffs, wars, and whether and how to spend taxpayer money.
这种肮脏行为还延伸到篡夺国会决定关税、战争以及是否以及如何花费纳税人资金的权力。
And extends to his cynical defiance of Supreme Court orders.
并延伸到他对最高法院命令的愤世嫉俗的蔑视。
When the high court invalidates Trump’s tariffs, he reimposes them under a different statute.
当高等法院宣布特朗普的关税无效时，他会根据另一项法规重新征收关税。
When the court rules that he doesn’t have grounds to remove a member of the Fed board of governors, he concocts a means to do so anyway.
当法院裁定他没有理由罢免美联储理事会成员时，他无论如何都会想出一个办法来这样做。
When the court says he has to remove his name from the Kennedy Center, he closes the center and threatens to demolish it.
当法院要求他必须从肯尼迪中心删除他的名字时，他关闭了该中心并威胁要拆除它。
It extends to his using the Justice Department and the FBI to prosecute people who have stood up to him, including courageous judges and prosecutors.
它还延伸到他利用司法部和联邦调查局起诉那些反抗他的人，包括勇敢的法官和检察官。
It extends to his overt bigotry and racism — claiming Mexicans are “bringing drugs and crime”; calling Somali-Americans “garbage” and denouncing “what they’ve done to Minnesota, these people from Somalia”; and taunting Muslims (calling Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan, “Mohammed”).
它延伸到他公然的偏执和种族主义——声称墨西哥人“带来毒品和犯罪”；称索马里裔美国人为“垃圾”，并谴责“这些来自索马里的人对明尼苏达州所做的事情”；嘲笑穆斯林（称密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·赛义德博士为“穆罕默德”）。
It extends to giving a gigantic tax cut to America’s wealthiest people, financed by cutting nutrition assistance and health care to America’s most vulnerable people.
它延伸到为美国最富有的人提供巨额减税，资金来源是削减对美国最弱势群体的营养援助和医疗保健。
The moral squalor has turned much of America into a police state — terrorizing large numbers of people residing here, including many here legally.
道德败坏已将美国大部分地区变成了一个警察国家——恐吓着大量居住在这里的人，其中包括许多合法居住的人。
Deploying ICE agents at schools, courthouses, and hospitals.
在学校、法院和医院部署 ICE 特工。
Forcibly taking parents away from their children.
强行将父母从孩子身边带走。
Allowing masked gunmen without identification to grab suspected undocumented immigrants off our streets, from their cars, and out of their homes — giving them no opportunity to defend themselves in front of third parties before putting them into often overcrowded and unhealthy prisons or sending them to other countries where they’re imprisoned.
允许蒙面枪手在没有身份证明的情况下将可疑的无证移民从我们的街道、汽车和家中抓走——让他们没有机会在第三方面前为自己辩护，然后将他们关进经常人满为患且不卫生的监狱，或将他们送往其他被监禁的国家。
Killing and murdering — even murdering Americans who are trying to monitor their activities — then refusing even to conduct official inquiries into the murders.
杀戮和谋杀——甚至谋杀试图监视他们活动的美国人——然后甚至拒绝对谋杀进行正式调查。
When asked if there are limits to his authority, Trump replie s: “Yeah, there is one thing.
当被问及他的权力是否受到限制时，特朗普回答说：“是的，有一件事。
My own morality.
我自己的道德。
My own mind.
我自己的想法。
It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
这是唯一能阻止我的事情。”
“My own” morality is no morality at all.
“我自己的”道德根本就不是道德。
Morality reflects collective judgments about right and wrong, shared values about what we owe one another as citizens of the same society.
道德反映了对是非的集体判断，以及我们作为同一社会的公民相互之间所欠的共同价值观。
Morality refers to the ideals we seek to achieve together.
道德是指我们共同寻求实现的理想。
Trump is not guided by any sense of right and wrong.
特朗普不受任何是非观念的指导。
He is guided only by what enriches him or gives him more power and glory — a nihilistic might-makes-right ethos in which the strong do whatever they want and the weak suffer what they must.
他只受那些使他变得更加富有或给予他更多权力和荣耀的事物的引导——这是一种虚无主义的强权即正义的精神，在这种精神中，强者为所欲为，弱者则遭受他们必须承受的痛苦。
To be sure, Trump’s moral squalor could not have permeated America — he could not have been elected a second time — had our shared norms and ideals not already been compromised.
可以肯定的是，如果我们共同的规范和理想没有受到损害，特朗普的道德败坏就不可能渗透到美国——他不可能再次当选。
Vast inequalities of income and wealth, coupled with a growing sense that the social contract at the heart of the American system was coming undone and that those at the top have rigged the game, were already fueling anger and distrust.
收入和财富的巨大不平等，加上人们越来越意识到美国体系核心的社会契约正在瓦解，高层人士操纵了游戏，已经在加剧愤怒和不信任。
Trump ignited that fuel.
特朗普点燃了这种燃料。
But without shared ideals or common moral values, there is nothing pushing back against this despicable president and regime — no countervailing moral force against the ongoing squalor.
但如果没有共同的理想或共同的道德价值观，就没有任何力量可以反击这个卑鄙的总统和政权，也没有任何道德力量来对抗持续的肮脏行为。
Part of the project of ridding ourselves of Trump, therefore, must be to rekindle our understanding of the common good and appreciation of what we owe one another as members of the same society.
因此，摆脱特朗普的计划的一部分必须是重新激发我们对共同利益的理解，以及对我们作为同一个社会成员彼此之间的义务的理解。
Of course we must make life more affordable; Democrats are wise to emphasize this in the midterms.
当然，我们必须让生活变得更加实惠；民主党人在中期选举中强调这一点是明智的。
But we also must demand common decency from our president.
但我们也必须要求我们的总统保持普遍的正派。
Part of the project of riding ourselves of Trump and all he stands for, is to state strongly all of our common ideals and sense of moral behavior.
我们摆脱特朗普和他所代表的一切的计划的一部分，就是强烈声明我们所有的共同理想和道德行为意识。
Once we can provide ethical and moral leadership we will have the opportunity "to form a more perfect union" as stated by President Lincoln.
一旦我们能够提供伦理和道德领导力，我们将有机会“形成一个更完美的联盟”，正如林肯总统所说。
We must prepare for a long arduous path for the scum that now rule Washington will not go "quietly into the night," but they will attempt to destroy as much as they can as they leave.
我们必须为现在统治华盛顿的败类准备一条漫长而艰巨的道路，他们不会“悄悄地进入黑夜”，但他们会试图在离开时尽可能地摧毁。
We must prepare for the long battle ahead.
我们必须为未来的长期战斗做好准备。
He reflects perfectly the people that voted for him who are racist, xenophobic, misogynistic with destructive and antisocial values.
他完美地反映了那些投票给他的人，他们是种族主义者、仇外者、厌恶女性者，具有破坏性和反社会的价值观。
Those “values” need to go and usher in normalcy.
这些“价值观”需要消失并迎来常态。
We’ve already accomplished that in the past.
我们过去已经做到了这一点。
We do need to address systemic racism once and for all as it has divided us worse than anything.
我们确实需要一劳永逸地解决系统性种族主义，因为它使我们更加分裂。