Back in the 1980s conventional wisdom(传统观念，普遍看法) held that America was moving rightward(向右，转向右翼) under Ronald Reagan(① 任期：1981-1989年，共和党人...). But that is not what Patrick Buchanan(① 生平：生于1938年，曾任尼克松和里...) saw when he surveyed(审视，调查) the country as Reagan’s presidency was coming to a close. In his autobiography, “Right from the Beginning”, published in 1988, Mr Buchanan, a Republican stalwart(坚定支持者，忠实成员) who had worked for Reagan and Richard Nixon, lamented(哀叹，痛惜) that the “once-Christian country(曾经的基督教国家)” had abandoned the Judeo-Christian values(犹太-基督教价值观) he was raised on as a Catholic.
早在20世纪80年代，传统观点认为美国在罗纳德·里根领导下向右转。但这并不是帕特里克·布坎南在里根总统任期即将结束时审视国家时所看到的。在他1988年出版的自传《从一开始就是右派》中，这位曾为里根和理查德·尼克松工作过的共和党坚定分子哀叹，这个“曾经的基督教国家”已经抛弃了他作为天主教徒所接受的犹太-基督教价值观。
His critique might ring a bell(听起来耳熟，唤起记忆). A secular(世俗的，非宗教的) leftist movement with “its own methods for punishing heretics and policing orthodoxy(监管正统（思想）)”, Mr Buchanan wrote, was imposing its values by obsessing over perceived(被感知的，所谓的) racism, sexism and environmental harm, spreading socialism, censoring(审查（言论）) speech and teaching young Americans to despise their history. Mr Buchanan inveighed against(猛烈抨击) “an absurd ‘trade war’” to restrict Asian products as “an act of almost terminal stupidity(极度的愚蠢) for the West”. Following the lead of the editor William F. Buckley(① 生平：1925-2008年，创办《国...), also a Republican and a Catholic, Mr Buchanan saw free trade as essential to America’s struggle with the Soviet Union(与苏联的斗争).
他的批评听起来可能耳熟。布坎南写道，一个世俗左派运动“有自己惩罚异端和监管正统的方法”，它通过过度关注所谓的种族主义、性别歧视和环境危害，传播社会主义，审查言论，教育美国年轻人鄙视自己的历史，来强行推行其价值观。布坎南强烈抨击限制亚洲产品的“一场荒谬的‘贸易战’”，称其为“西方几乎最愚蠢的行为”。在同样身为共和党人和天主教徒的编辑威廉·F·巴克利引领下，布坎南认为自由贸易对美国与苏联的斗争至关重要。
Then the Berlin Wall fell(① 事件：1989年11月9日，柏林墙开...). When Mr Buchanan mounted his insurgent campaigns(发起挑战性的竞选活动) for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996, he spiked(注入，掺入) his cultural conservatism with economic populism(经济民粹主义). He condemned(谴责) the North American Free Trade Agreement as betraying American workers and urged tariffs on Japan and China. He was now promoting an isolationist(孤立主义的) foreign policy—he called it “America first(美国优先)”—that included a “security fence” to stop illegal immigrants. “They’ve got no right to break our laws and break into our country(闯入我国) and go on welfare,” he thundered(怒喝，大声说).
后来柏林墙倒塌了。当布坎南在1992年和1996年发起挑战性的共和党总统提名竞选时，他将经济民粹主义注入其文化保守主义。他谴责北美自由贸易协定背叛了美国工人，并敦促对日本和中国征收关税。他现在推行一种孤立主义外交政策——他称之为“美国优先”——包括修建“安全围栏”以阻止非法移民。“他们无权违反我们的法律、闯入我们的国家并享受福利，”他怒吼道。
Faith surpassing understanding
超越理解的信仰