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，他们快速行动并打破常规。在华盛顿，他们缓慢行动并进行微调。列宁曾打趣地说，有时候几十年都没什么事情，而有时候几周却发生了几十年的事情，这似乎是在预测唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)第二任期的开局。华盛顿是一个尊重“常规秩序”的制度化城市，本地人对此深信不疑，但它并不适应特朗普在过去20天内以惊人速度四处出击的方式。他能否成功按照自己的理念改造美国共和国，取决于他能否以压倒性的方式震慑美国的联邦首都。除了几项法院下达的行动暂缓令外，他的策略迄今为止是有效的。