Brian Hiatt “Bruce Springsteen Calls Donald Trump a 'Moron'” http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bruce-springsteen-calls-donald-trump-a-moron-w441761
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ブルース・スプリングスティーン*2へのインタヴュー。これは抜粋版。タイトルにもなっているドナルド・トランプ*3に対する批判。”What do you make of the Trump phenomenon? “という質問に対する答え；
いやはや、moronというのは私にとっては馴染みのない言葉。同じ馬鹿でも、foolやidiotとのニュアンスの差は如何に？
Well, you know, the republic is under siege by a moron, basically. The whole thing is tragic. Without overstating it, it's a tragedy for our democracy. When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do. Once you let those genies out of the bottle, they don't go back in so easy, if they go back in at all. The ideas he's moving to the mainstream are all very dangerous ideas – white nationalism and the alt-right movement. The outrageous things that he's done – not immediately disavowing David Duke*4? These are things that are obviously beyond the pale for any previous political candidate. It would sink your candidacy immediately.I believe that there's a price being paid for not addressing the real cost of the deindustrialization and globalization that has occurred in the United States for the past 35, 40 years and how it’s deeply affected people's lives and deeply hurt people to where they want someone who says they have a solution. And Trump's thing is simple answers to very complex problems. Fallacious answers to very complex problems. And that can be very appealing.
*1:Via “Bruce Springsteen calls Donald Trump a 'moron'” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/24/bruce-springsteen-calls-donald-trump-a-moron
*2:See http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20070427/1177703588 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20070818/1187419562 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090621/1245529684 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090627/1246073926 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20100715/1279166329 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20130129/1359457895 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20141205/1417707792 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160409/1460197925 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160415/1460692291 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160419/1461021090 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160629/1467216831
*3:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160112/1452559076 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160129/1454064240 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160220/1455946832 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160330/1459312281 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160410/1460305771 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160522/1463941481 http://d.hatna.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160601/1464744478 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160615/1465947659 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160615/1465947658 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160629/1467212026 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160725/1469418870 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160915/1473959248
