The left’s insurgency(叛乱，起义；此处指政治反抗) against the Democratic party establishment has hit its first serious bump in the road(小挫折，障碍) in Wisconsin. Democratic socialist Francesca Hong entered Tuesday up by big margins in the polls, the huge betting favorite(博彩热门，最被看好者). She left it just a few thousand votes short of(不足，缺乏；差一点) the Democratic nomination. What happened, and how, offers extremely important lessons for both the left and the Democratic establishment.
左派对民主党建制派的反叛在威斯康星州遭遇了第一个严重的挫折。民主社会主义者弗朗西斯卡·洪在周二初选前民调大幅领先，是博彩公司的巨大热门。但她最终以几千票之差未能获得民主党提名。发生了什么，以及如何发生的，为左派和民主党建制派都提供了极其重要的教训。
The first is that the party still matter(重要，有关系)s. Its institutions and leaders matter. We saw that power in Democratic primaries in 2020. After Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucus(党团会议，核心会议)es and emerged as the frontrunner(领跑者，领先者), party leaders rapidly consolidate(巩固，联合，团结)d around Joe Biden.
首先，政党仍然重要。它的机构和领导人仍然重要。我们在2020年的民主党初选中看到了这种力量。在伯尼·桑德斯赢得内华达州党团会议并成为领跑者后，党内领导人迅速团结在乔·拜登周围。
Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out and endorse(支持， endorsement 背书)d him, and within days Biden went from trailing(落后，尾随) badly to winning majorities of the Democratic vote across much of the country. It was a stunning demonstration of the power of the party, its institutions and its elites to signal to voters who the party’s candidate was and rapidly consolidate support around him.(这是对政党及其精英向选民传达信号并迅速团结支持的力量的惊人展示。) The same basic thing happened here.
皮特·布蒂吉格和艾米·克洛布彻退出并支持他，几天之内，拜登就从大幅落后转变为在全国大部分地区赢得民主党多数选票。这是对政党、其机构和精英向选民发出信号、表明谁是党的候选人并迅速团结支持的力量的惊人展示。这里也发生了同样基本的事情。