Hungary, Brazil, Serbia, and now the US. So far this year, when their hand has been held to the stove(被逼到火炉边试痛), voters have chosen what the Texas senator-elect(当选参议员) James Talarico, the new face of the US’s Christian left(美国基督教左翼的新面孔), campaigned on as a “politics of love”: a society where we aren’t at each other’s throats(彼此撕咬、互相攻击), or a police state at ours(警察国家逼近我们).
匈牙利、巴西、塞尔维亚，如今又轮到美国。今年迄今为止，每当被逼到火炉边试痛，选民们都选择了得克萨斯州新当选参议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科所倡导的「爱的政治」——这位美国基督教左翼的新面孔在竞选中正是以此为核心主张：一个我们不必彼此撕咬、也不必面对警察国家的社会。
Is it any surprise that when there is clarity about the choice on offer, voters have started to shrink away from a vision fuelled by billionaire wealth and runaway inequality?(当选择清晰可见时，选民开始远离那种由亿万富翁财富和失控的不平等所驱动的愿景——这有什么好奇怪的呢？) Away from oligarchic(寡头的) rule and unapologetic(毫无悔意的) corruption, connivance(勾结、纵容) with aggression, expansion, colonialism and war; environmental degradation and the surrender of the human spirit to a reality mediated by the algorithm(人类精神向算法中介的现实投降).
当选择清晰可见时，选民开始远离那种由亿万富翁财富和失控的不平等所驱动的愿景——这有什么好奇怪的呢？他们远离寡头统治和毫无悔意的腐败，远离与侵略、扩张、殖民主义和战争的勾结；远离环境退化，远离人类精神向算法中介的现实投降。
Are we living, perhaps, through an extended “democratic spring” that began in Budapest in April with the overthrow of Viktor Orbán, and will continue all the way through to the arrival of the Élysée Palace’s next occupant in May?(或许，我们正在经历一场延展的「民主之春」——它始于四月布达佩斯欧尔班的下台，并将一路延续到五月爱丽舍宫新主人到来之时？)
或许，我们正在经历一场延展的「民主之春」——它始于四月布达佩斯欧尔班的下台，并将一路延续到五月爱丽舍宫新主人到来之时？