In Silicon Valley, they move fast and break things. In Washington, they move slowly and tweak them. Lenin could have been forecasting the opening to Donald Trump’s second term when he quipped that there are decades where nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. Washington, an institutional town where respect for “regular order” binds its natives, is not equipped for the speed with which Trump has been flooding the zone in the past 20 days. How he fares in remaking the US republic in his image hinges on overwhelming America’s federal capital with shock and awe. Aside from several court-ordered stays of action, his tactics have so far been effective.
在硅谷，他們快速行動并打破常規。在華盛頓，他們緩慢行動并進行微調。列寧曾打趣地說，有時候幾十年都沒什么事情，而有時候幾周卻發生了幾十年的事情，這似乎是在預測唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)第二任期的開局。華盛頓是一個尊重“常規秩序”的制度化城市，本地人對此深信不疑，但它并不適應特朗普在過去20天內以驚人速度四處出擊的方式。他能否成功按照自己的理念改造美國共和國，取決于他能否以壓倒性的方式震懾美國的聯邦首都。除了幾項法院下達的行動暫緩令外，他的策略迄今為止是有效的。