There are two Donald Trumps. We liberals see an ignorant, sadistic, immoral, bigoted, authoritarian narcissist, as revealed by his own words. But there’s another Trump, who is invisible to liberals: a sensible conservative Trump. This is the Trump described by people who are themselves sensible conservatives. They think that we liberals with Trump Derangement Syndrome should put aside what Trump says and concentrate on what he does. Some sensible conservatives are Financial Times readers, who have made this argument to me in thoughtful emails. I’ll set out their case, as I understand it.
存在兩種形象的唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)。我們自由派看到的是一個(gè)無知、殘忍、不道德、偏執(zhí)、威權(quán)主義的自戀者，這是他自己的言辭所揭示的。然而，對(duì)自由派來說，還有另一個(gè)看不見的特朗普：一個(gè)理智的保守派特朗普。這是由那些自認(rèn)為是理智保守派的人所描述的特朗普。他們認(rèn)為我們這些患有特朗普失常綜合癥的自由派應(yīng)該把特朗普說的話放在一邊，專注于他所做的事情。一些理智的保守派是英國《金融時(shí)報(bào)》的讀者，他們?cè)谏钏际鞈]的電子郵件中向我提出了這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)。我將按照我理解的方式闡述他們的論點(diǎn)。