《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.10.26☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める☆PBS News Hour
■今日の動画：PBS News Hour Oct. 25, 2024
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[31:10] TREVOR DARR, Trump Supporter: Identity politics has improved culture and society in some ways.
[** identity politics = politics in which groups of people having a particular racial, religious, ethnic, social, or cultural identity tend to promote their own specific interests or concerns without regard to the interests or concerns of any larger political group (Merriam-Webster) ]
[32:50] RICHARD REEVES: It's a bit more of a head-scratcher as to what's happening with those young men. My view is that it's because the left and the Democrats have just not contested enough. They have ceded too much ground on this issue. I'm quite convinced that that's part of the problem here, is that young men today don't see an obvious scripted place for themselves in society and in community and in the family in the way that their fathers did. What ends up being the choice for a lot of men is feeling like a left that's turned its back on them and a right that thinks the solution is to turn back the clock on women.
[** scripted place = an established role or position within a society, family, or community, often shaped by cultural expectations and norms; a position within a society, family, or community where individuals can feel a sense of belonging as long as they adhere to expected norms ]
[33:33] LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Back at North Carolina Central University, 21-year-old Amari Glover said some of his friends have told him they might back Trump.
AMARI GLOVER, Harris Supporter: I have noticed this, especially because he hangs out with a lot of the rappers that my generation is cool with. So I feel like that's a way for him to influence us, because we will see that and say, oh, you know, Trump is cool, or he gets us, he understands, when, really, I just feel like it's a tactic to get his way inside.
[** be cool with something = (in this context) to have a positive view or admiration for something. ]
[34:18] LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: For Anderson Clayton, there's no denying that Harris expanded the map for Democrats.
ANDERSON CLAYTON: I do think that she has made a world of difference being at the top of the ticket this year. And folks knew that North Carolina was going to be a marginal state, and it's a state where, like, that energy level could be that margin, right? It could push people over the top to get out and vote. And I think that there is a huge impact and a wave of opportunity here that Joe Biden would not have had, honestly.
[** marginal state = (in this context) a state where election outcomes are closely contested, often determining the overall result of an election; also known as a swing state or battleground state ]
[37:04] AMNA NAWAZ: So, in the case of The Washington Post, the former executive editor, Marty Baron, today called that decision cowardice. He also claimed that former President Trump will see this as what he called an invitation to further intimidate owner Jeff Bezos. Is there truth to this idea, Sewell, that Bezos is somehow hedging his bets against a potential Trump presidency and doesn't want to see his business interests harmed?
[** hedge one's bets against something = to take measures to protect against potential risks or uncertainties related to something, often by adopting a cautious or balanced approach ]
[49:06] GEOFF BENNETT: And, David, I want to draw you out on a column that you wrote this past week where you more or less captured the moment. And you said this election is happening too soon. It's happening before cultural and civic preconditions are in place that might turbocharge political and legislative reform. Say more. What do you mean?
[** draw someone out = to encourage or prompt someone to expand on their thoughts ]
[49:23] DAVID BROOKS: Yes, well, you asked earlier, why hasn't Kamala Harris built a big lead? I just think that's not the way history has worked. Politics doesn't lead society. If you look at the big moments of social change, they happen with a formula. The cultural change happens first, civic change happens next, and then political change. So if you look at the 1890s, we used to have a very individualistic ethos called social Darwinism. It was replaced in the 1880s and 1890s with something called the Social Gospel movement, which is about community, which is about taking care of the poor. And out of that philosophy grew a whole series of social movements, the settlement house movement, the environmental movement, the NAACP, the union movement. And so you had all these social movements in the 1890s. And then right about 1900, 1905, 1910, you get the political movement, which was the progressive movement, cleaning up government, then creating the Federal Reserve system, regulating food safety and things like that. So it goes culture change, social movements, political change. And Harris has not had the benefit of a cultural shift or the social movement explosion.
[** social Darwinism = The theory that the laws of evolution by natural selection also apply to social structures (wiktionary)]
[** Social Gospel movement = see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Gospel ]
[** settlement house movement = see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_movement ]
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