On some days it feels like nature is giving America a heads-up. Migratory birds falling from the skies; smoke from America’s west coast fires reaching Europe; parts of Florida underwater — the atmospherics are Wagnerian. Humans are waiting in the wings for when nature takes a breather. The coming weeks will show whether the US can manage a fair election amid a likely second wave of coronavirus when most Americans believe a win for the other side could only be because of fraud. America has had no dress rehearsal for a situation like this.
大自然有時彷彿在提醒美國。候鳥從天空墜落;美國西海岸野火的煙霧飄到歐洲;海平面上升淹沒佛羅里達州部分地區——整個氣氛是瓦格納式的。人們正焦急地等著大自然消停一會兒。未來幾周將揭示,在可能爆發第二輪新型冠狀病毒肺炎(Covid 19,即2019冠狀病毒病)疫情的情況下,美國能否在大部分美國人都認爲對方黨派只有通過使詐才能贏得大選的情況下進行一場公平的選舉。美國從來沒有爲這種情況彩排過。