【深度好文】奥巴马八年，一场大型梦幻秀

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For the past month, much of American political life has resembled a game of Ouija. Democrats and those who vote for them are amusing themselves with the fantasy that they’ve been visited by some long-dormant spirit, even if the force they are imagining is just the movement of their own hands. The message sent from the great beyond spells Y-E-S-W-E-C-A-N. 在过去的一个月里，美国的政治生活就像一场通灵板游戏。民主党人及其选民们正在自娱自乐地幻想自己被某种长眠已久的灵魂所拜访，尽管他们所想象的力量实际上只是他们自己的手在移动。从彼岸传来的信息拼出的是“Y-E-S-W-E-C-A-N”（是的，我们可以）。 Collectively, we are conjuring the ghost of the Obama era — that earnest, optimistic, energized, celeb-obsessed, self-conscious, cringeworthy time. It was an age that seemed dead and buried as recently as mid-July, when Katy Perry’s “Woman’s World” sought to revive the sound of the mid-2 ………………………………