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So not only have the geographical basis of those parties changed to some extent, Not fully by any means, but to some extents the ideologies have as well
不仅限于支持者所处的地理位置发生了变化，还是有些相同之处的变化还发生在他们的意识和主张上
You found major tensions that was in the parties
党内的不同的帮派间也关系紧张
To some extents, some of these tensions within the parties were more extreme, not so much geographical as ideological
但造成党内纷争的原因并不是地域之争或意识形态不同等等的极端问题
It's interesting the term they use
但不同帮派的名字起得很有意思
The Republicans in the gilded age were divided between the stalwarts and half-breeds
镀金时代的共和党分裂的两派被称为‘守旧派’和‘混合派’
The stalwarts were those who basically wanted to continue the policies of the Grant administration
守旧派一致希望能够延续格兰特政权的执政方针
They were generally in favor of what we today might consider machine politics
即继续发展黑暗的、今天我们口中所说的“党棍政治”
The half-breeds were the reformers
混合派的人寻求改革

They were dead said against any sort of shady practices
他们极力反对任何腐败或暗箱操作
They wanted a clean house
他们想要一个清廉的政权
And they battle every battle against the half-breeds
因此两派之间发生了激烈斗争
The Democrats were divided too
民主党也出现了分歧
We don't have a nice pairing of terms for that, But we could generally come up with sort of two different tendencies
但分歧各方并没有给自己冠上一个派名，但我们大致可以把民主党分歧的趋势概括为两个方向
We might talk about the more traditional Democrats versus the group that often called the Bourbon Democrats
一边是较为传统的民主党人，另一边则常被称为波旁民主党人
In reference both to the alcoholic drink and the Bourbon dynasty in France
他们得名于一种名为波旁的酒和法国的波旁王朝
The Bourbon Democrats were associated much more with financial interests
波旁民主党人常以经济利益为中心

视频及简介

这一集大致讲述了1920－1972年总统大选的历史与过程，主要以一战、1929大萧条、二战、美苏冷战为历史背景，穿插了西奥多罗斯福，富兰克林罗斯福，杜鲁门，肯尼迪等几位著名美国总统的竞选和执政经历。