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Based on โ€œA Trump Dissenter Fights for His Political Lifeโ€ from New York Times Podcasts Watch the original video

Kentuckyโ€™s Loyalty Test: Can a Maverick Congressman Defy Trump and Win?

In the heart of Kentucky, a political drama of national significance is unfolding, a stark illustration of former President Donald Trumpโ€™s enduring, and often unforgiving, grip on the Republican Party. Representative Thomas Massie, a seven-term incumbent known for his fiercely independent conservative streak, finds himself in the crosshairs of a president determined to purge dissent. This isnโ€™t just another primary; itโ€™s a high-stakes battle that could redefine the boundaries of loyalty and independence within the modern GOP.

Trump, currently navigating his own record-low approval ratings, has made it his mission to discipline the Republican Party, systematically targeting those who have dared to cross him. Heโ€™s already seen success in Indiana and Louisiana, but the Kentucky Fourth Congressional District primary represents his final, and perhaps most significant, โ€œrevenge race.โ€ Here, Trump is asking Republican voters to reject a congressman theyโ€™ve elected seven times before, labeling him a โ€œcomplete and total disasterโ€ and โ€œdisloyal to the Republican partyโ€ and the United States.

โ€œWe got to get rid of this loser,โ€ Trump declared, leaving no room for ambiguity. โ€œThis guy is bad. Heโ€™s disloyal to the Republican party. Heโ€™s disloyal to the people of Kentucky and most importantly, he is disloyal to the United States of America and heโ€™s got to be voted out of office as soon as possible.โ€

The stakes couldnโ€™t be higher. If Massie, a figure described by New York Times political correspondent Robert Draper as โ€œmore defiant pretty much than all the other Republicans put together,โ€ manages to survive this onslaught, it could signal a crack in Trumpโ€™s seemingly absolute control. If he falls, it will send a chilling message to any other Republican contemplating a similar act of independence.

The Unlikely Rebel: Thomas Massieโ€™s Maverick Brand

Thomas Massieโ€™s defiance isnโ€™t new; itโ€™s central to his political identity. From the outset of his career, Massie has cultivated a brand as an individualist, an โ€œeccentric,โ€ and a โ€œfiscal absolutist.โ€ His principles are unyielding, even when they put him at odds with his own party or its de facto leader. Heโ€™s known for his โ€œoff-the-grid cattle farmerโ€ persona, his preference for raw milk, and his tendency to sit by himself in the House chamber โ€“ a veritable โ€œPaul Bunyan aspectโ€ to his political character.

His conservative purism has led him to take positions that most Republicans would find anathema. He advocates for โ€œno increase in spendingโ€ for anyone, including the military and even key allies like Israel. Heโ€™s opposed Trumpโ€™s interventions in Venezuela and Iran, arguing they betray the โ€œAmerica Firstโ€ principle. While he votes with Republicans an overwhelming 91% of the time, itโ€™s the 9% of the time he doesnโ€™t that draws Trumpโ€™s ire.

However, the most personally vexing act of defiance for Trump, and arguably the one Massie will be best known for, centered on Jeffrey Epstein. At a time when Speaker Mike Johnson was deferring to Trumpโ€™s reluctance to release the Epstein files, Massie took the lead. He worked with a bipartisan coalition, including Democrat Ro Khanna and several Republican women, to champion the release of these sensitive documents. He convened hearings and held press conferences with Epsteinโ€™s survivors, becoming the public face of the movement.

Massieโ€™s determination was so great that Trump, reading the tea leaves of his own baseโ€™s desires, was ultimately forced to throw reluctant support behind the โ€œEpstein Files Transparency Act.โ€ This legislative victory, spearheaded by Massie, compelled the Department of Justice to release the files, marking a moment where Trump โ€œessentially had to declare defeat.โ€ It was a defeat that Trump โ€œclearly did not forget nor forgive Massie for.โ€

Trumpโ€™s Handpicked Challenger: Ed Galrineโ€™s Loyalty Pledge

In opposition to Massieโ€™s maverick individualism stands Ed Galrine, Trumpโ€™s handpicked challenger. Galrine, a dairy farmer and Navy Seal, presents himself as a โ€œTrump Stalwartโ€ who has pledged unwavering loyalty to the former president and his agenda. Trump has given Galrine his โ€œcomplete and total endorsement,โ€ calling him a โ€œtrue American heroโ€ and a โ€œgreat patriot.โ€

Galrineโ€™s campaign strategy is remarkably singular: he is running almost exclusively on his support for Trump. At a guarded event attended by the press and the US Chamber of Commerce (which endorsed him), Galrine introduced himself as a non-politician from a multi-generational farming family, a decorated Navy Seal, and someone โ€œpressed into service again by President Trump.โ€

His message was clear and unadorned by policy specifics. โ€œIโ€™m proud to stand with President Trump, the Republican party, his American first and Kentucky always agenda,โ€ Galrine declared, noting that Trump โ€œliked itโ€ when he added โ€œKentucky always.โ€ He spoke not of committee assignments or global affairs, but almost entirely of Trump, positioning himself as the necessary counterpoint to Massieโ€™s perceived obstructionism. โ€œPresident Trump needed conservatives in Congress to deliver for the American peopleโ€ฆ but Thomas Massie stood in the way, not just against President Trump, but against the party and America.โ€

When pressed on whether he would be a โ€œrubber stampโ€ for Trump, Galrine conflated individual courage with political independence, citing his Navy Seal service. โ€œThe president knows who I am. He knows what I stand for. He knows exactly who he was talking to. I am no rubber stamp. Will never happen,โ€ he asserted. Yet, in a subsequent phone interview, when asked about his desired House committee assignments, Galrineโ€™s answer was telling: โ€œIโ€™m going to go to Speaker Johnson and the presidentโ€ฆ Iโ€™m going to say where you need me, coach. Just like when I played ballโ€ฆ Governing is a team sport.โ€ He added, โ€œI got my desires. I got places I think I fit, but he knows what the whole ball team looks like.โ€ This โ€œwhatever the coach saysโ€ mentality stands in stark contrast to Massieโ€™s vision of congressional independence.

On the Ground in Kentucky: A Divided Electorate

To understand the โ€œground truthโ€ of this heated primary, Robert Draper and Daily producer Caitlyn Oโ€™Keefe traveled to Kentucky. What they found was a Republican electorate grappling with a profound dilemma: how to reconcile their admiration for a principled congressman with their fervent loyalty to a president who demands absolute fealty.

At a Massie event in Boone County, the courthouse was packed. Massie, in his characteristic style, opened the floor to questions after a presentation that highlighted his legislative achievements, particularly his role in releasing the Epstein files. He made no apologies for his independence. โ€œIf youโ€™re covering up for pedophiles, if you are trying to spy on Americans without a warrant, if you are bankrupting this country, then I am not voting for that,โ€ he stated to applause.

Many in the audience were adoring, praising his principles and independence. โ€œPeople complain that we send politicians to Washington and theyโ€™re not principled. You stand for your principles and thatโ€™s gold to me,โ€ one supporter exclaimed.

But then came the skeptics. Elizabeth Smith, a past Massie supporter and an โ€œunswerving devoteeโ€ of Trump, expressed her indecision. โ€œI support the president more than any other time ever in my lifeโ€ฆ Please, um, give me a reason to vote for you this time,โ€ she pleaded, asking Massie to help her reconcile her dual loyalties. Massie responded by reminding her that Trump wasnโ€™t on the ballot and that his defiance was in service of โ€œAmerica Firstโ€ principles Trump himself espoused.

The most revealing exchange came from Mark Graphy, a gentleman who represented an entirely different point of view. Graphyโ€™s basic premise was simple: โ€œThe one person in the whole United States, maybe the world that understands everything and has input everything is Donald Trumpโ€ฆ The manโ€™s basic point was the president knows more than you do. So why arenโ€™t you deferring to this manโ€™s obvious superiority?โ€ Graphy complained that Massie had voted โ€œnoโ€ on bills important to him, accusing Massie of having โ€œturned on Trump.โ€ He admitted he knew little about Galrine but would vote for him because โ€œTrump has endorsed him. And that means to me that he will help Trump pass the things that I want done.โ€

This intense exchange lasted 14 minutes. Massie patiently engaged, questioning Graphyโ€™s implicit trust in Trump. โ€œWhat do you think he learned about the Epstein Fox that caused him to do a 180 that makes him smarter than the people in this room that they should have been hidden?โ€ Massie pressed. Graphy, while agreeing with the release of the files, still clung to the notion that โ€œif he knows the big picture, there might be things that you donโ€™t understand why he said that that heโ€™s not even revealing to us.โ€ Massieโ€™s powerful retort encapsulated the core philosophical divide: โ€œI donโ€™t give anybody but God that kind of trust.โ€

This exchange made it clear that while Massie remains popular, his split with Trump is โ€œclearly registering with voters.โ€ The choice, for many, is stark: โ€œyou are either with Trump or you are against him and there is no room for independence.โ€

The High Stakes: A Message to the Party

The Kentucky primary has become the most expensive House primary in American history, largely due to the financial war chest supporting Galrine and attacking Massie. The race is incredibly close, with polls suggesting the candidates are โ€œdead even.โ€ Regardless of the outcome, the implications for the Republican Party are profound.

If Massie loses, Trump will have unequivocally demonstrated that there is โ€œno tolerance for opposing him,โ€ even when the dissenter, like Massie, stakes out positions deeply rooted in what Trump claims his political movement is about. It will solidify Trumpโ€™s โ€œstranglehold over the Republican partyโ€ as โ€œpretty much absolute.โ€

However, even if Massie wins, the message to other potential dissenters within the GOP will be equally formidable: โ€œDo you really want to go through what I just went through in the name of independence from Trump?โ€ The answer, many observers believe, is likely โ€œno.โ€ In this sense, Trump achieves his goal of โ€œimposing a very high degree of ideological conformityโ€ either way.

Yet, this strategy carries significant risks. Recent polling suggests that Democrats hold a substantial lead on the generic ballot, indicating that unwavering fidelity to Trump could prove damaging in general elections. While Massieโ€™s seat will remain Republican whether he or Galrine wins, the national picture suggests that swing districts could swing Democratic if the party remains too closely wedded to an increasingly unpopular figure.

Trump, understanding leverage better than most, has effectively used โ€œno small element of fearโ€ to command his party. He has shown a willingness to wield this power even โ€œin defiance of public opinion and polls that would suggest that people be a little bit wary of that fidelity to Trump.โ€ The Kentucky primary serves as a stark reminder that in todayโ€™s Republican Party, the price of independence is incredibly high, and the demand for loyalty remains paramount, even if it means steering the party toward a โ€œmidterm cliff.โ€ The question for the GOP is not just whether Massie can survive, but whether the party itself can thrive under such an unyielding demand for conformity.


ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด

โ€œA Trump Dissenter Fights for His Political Lifeโ€ โ€” New York Times Podcasts ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ ์›๋ณธ ์˜์ƒ ๋ณด๊ธฐ

๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๋‚ด โ€˜๋ฐ˜ํ•ญ์•„โ€™ ๋งค์‹œ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์‹ฌํŒ๋Œ€์—์„œ ์ •์น˜์  ์ƒ์กด์„ ๊ฑด ์‹ธ์›€

๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ „ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ถŒ์œ„์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋“ค์„ ์šฉ๋‚ฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ(midterm primary elections)๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹น๋‚ด ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํŒŒ๋ฅผ ์ˆ™์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ  โ€˜ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ถฉ์„ฑโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ง•๊ณ„(discipline)๋ฅผ ํ™•๊ณ ํžˆ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์‹œ๋„๋Š” ๊ณ„์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ โ€˜๋ณต์ˆ˜์ „โ€™์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์ด์ž ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฒฉ์ „์ง€ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค ์ฃผ ์ œ4์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ 7์„  ํ˜„์—ญ ์˜์›์ด์ž โ€˜๊ณ ๋…ํ•œ ๋Š‘๋Œ€โ€™๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค ๋งค์‹œ(Thomas Massie) ์˜์›์ด ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ์ง€๋ชฉํ•œ ํ›„๋ณด์™€ ์ •์น˜์  ์ƒ์กด์„ ๊ฑด ์‹ธ์›€์„ ๋ฒŒ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ์—ฐ ํ•œ๋•Œ ์••๋„์ ์ธ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋˜ ์˜์›์ด ์ ์  ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์‹์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์ด ์‹ธ์›€์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์™€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋‹น๋‚ด ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Š ํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ฒ™๋„๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ โ€˜๋ณต์ˆ˜์ „โ€™, ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค์—์„œ ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๋‹ค

2022๋…„ 5์›” 19์ผ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ „ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ง€์ง€์œจ์ด ์ตœ์ €์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ 7๋ฒˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ์„ ์ถœํ•œ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ํ˜„์—ญ ์˜์›์„ ๋ฐฐ์ฒ™ํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ์š”๊ตฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋Œ€์ƒ์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์„ โ€œ์™„์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด์ฒด์ ์ธ ์žฌ์•™โ€์ด์ž โ€œ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์žฌ์•™โ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งน๋น„๋‚œํ•˜๋ฉฐ โ€œ์ด ํŒจ๋ฐฐ์ž๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋†’์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น, ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค ์ฃผ๋ฏผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋ถˆ์ถฉํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•œ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์˜ํšŒ์—์„œ ๋ชฐ์•„๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๊ณ ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ ๋Œ€๊ฐ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ง์ ‘ ๊ณ ๋ฅธ ์—๋“œ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ(Ed Galrine) ํ›„๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์›๋“ค์ด ์„ ์ถœํ•ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์ž๊ธˆ์ด ํˆฌ์ž…๋œ ํ•˜์› ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ(House primary)๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด โ€œ์™„์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „ํญ์ ์ธ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์˜์›…์ด์ž ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ์• ๊ตญ์žโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์น˜์ผœ์„ธ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์Šค ์ •์น˜ ์ „๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ์ž ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ(Robert Draper)์™€ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฆฌ ํ”„๋กœ๋“€์„œ ์ผ€์ดํ‹€๋ฆฐ ์˜คํ‚คํ”„(Caitlyn Oโ€™Keefe)๋Š” ์ด ๊ฒฉ์ „์˜ ํ˜„์žฅ์ธ ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์ฐพ์•„ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๋‚ด โ€˜๋ฐ˜ํ•ญ์•„โ€™ ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์ด ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ „ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ์••๋ฐ• ์†์—์„œ ์ •์น˜์  ์ƒ์กด์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ์ทจ์žฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์ด ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์ด โ€œ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์˜์›๋“ค์„ ํ•ฉ์นœ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋…ธ๊ณจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋œป์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•ด์™”๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ „ํ˜€ ๊ฐœ์˜์น˜ ์•Š๋Š” ๋“ฏ์ด ๋ณด์˜€๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ๊ทธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ญํ•˜๋Š” ํ›„๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๊ฑฐ์•ก ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด๋ฅผ ํ›„์›ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋…๋ คํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ์ง€๋ชฉํ•œ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด๋Š” ๋‚™๋†์—…์ž์ด์ž ํ•ด๊ตฐ ํŠน์ˆ˜๋ถ€๋Œ€ ๋„ค์ด๋น„์‹ค(Navy Seal) ์ถœ์‹ ์ด๋ฉฐ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๊ตณ๊ฑดํ•œ ์ง€์ง€์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์˜์ œ(agenda)๋ฅผ ํ†ต๊ณผ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ํž˜์„ ๋ณดํƒœ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ 2018๋…„์—๋„ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๊ฒฌ์ œ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹น์‹œ์—๋Š” ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์••๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์Šน๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋ก ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋‘ ํ›„๋ณด๋Š” ์ ‘์ „(dead even)์„ ๋ฒŒ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ฌธ์ œ(์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜)์™€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ง€์ง€์œจ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋งค์‹œ๊ฐ€ โ€˜์ •์น˜์  ์ค‘๋ ฅ(political gravity)โ€˜์„ ๊ฑฐ์Šค๋ฅด๊ณ  ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” โ€˜๊ธฐํšŒโ€™๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ถ„์„์ด ๋‚˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์ด ์Šน๋ฆฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ด๋Š” โ€œํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์žฅ์•…๋ ฅ์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ ˆ๋Œ€์ โ€์ž„์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ๋งค์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์Šน๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์žฌ์„ ์— ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, โ€œํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์˜ˆ์ „๋งŒ ๋ชปํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งค์‹œ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜์›๋“ค๋„ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์—๊ฒŒ ๋„์ „ํ•  ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ „๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์˜ โ€˜๊ณ ๋…ํ•œ ๋Š‘๋Œ€โ€™ ์ •์‹ : ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์— ๋งž์„  ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค

๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ์™œ ์ดํ† ๋ก ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜ํ•ญ์ ์ธ ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๊ณ , ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์™œ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์šฉ๋‚ฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์กด์žฌ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒผ์„๊นŒ์š”?

๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ์ •์น˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ โ€˜๊ฐœ์ธ์ฃผ์˜์ž(individualist)โ€™, โ€˜ํ™•๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ดด์งœ(confirmed eccentric)โ€™, โ€˜์žฌ์ •์  ์ ˆ๋Œ€์ฃผ์˜์ž(fiscal absolutist)โ€˜๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์˜นํ˜ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ โ€˜์™ธ๊ตญ ์›์กฐ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€โ€™์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์›์น™์„ ๊ณ ์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์›๋“ค์ด ์˜ˆ์™ธ๋ฅผ ๋‘๋Š” ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์›์กฐ์—๋„ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์›์น™์ฃผ์˜์ ์ธ ํƒœ๋„๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๋‚ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ธต์—์„œ๋Š” โ€˜์ˆœ์ˆ˜์ฃผ์˜์ž(purist)โ€˜๋กœ ์ถ”์•™๋ฐ›๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ์ง€์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ๋น„๋‚˜ ์ค‘๋™์˜ ๋™๋งน๊ตญ์ธ ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋ฒ ๋„ค์ˆ˜์—˜๋ผ์™€ ์ด๋ž€ ๊ฐœ์ž…์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ด๋Š” โ€˜๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์šฐ์„ ์ฃผ์˜(America First)โ€˜๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋…์„ ๋ฐฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋ผ๊ณ  ๋น„ํŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ โ€˜๊ณ ๋…ํ•œ ๋Š‘๋Œ€(lone wolf)โ€™ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ๊ณ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ ์˜์‚ฌ๋‹น์— ์•‰์•„์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋น„์ •ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์ƒํ™œ ๋ฐฉ์‹(off-the-grid cattle farmer, raw milk drinker)์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ์„œ โ€œ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ•์ธํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ฒ™์ž(Paul Bunyan)์˜ ๋ฉด๋ชจโ€๋ฅผ ๋А๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์˜ ๋ฐ˜ํ•ญ์ ์ธ ํ–‰๋ณด ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ „ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ์พŒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์–ต์— ๋‚จ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ œํ”„๋ฆฌ ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ(Jeffrey Epstein) ํŒŒ์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ํˆฌ์Ÿ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ํŒŒ์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์— ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐฌ์„ฑํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ์˜ ์ง€์ง€์ธต์€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํžˆ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์›ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์˜ ์—ด๋ง์„ ๋ฌธ์ž ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ ํŒŒ์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์˜ โ€˜์„ ๋ด‰์žฅโ€™์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹น์‹œ ํ•˜์›์˜์žฅ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ ์กด์Šจ(Mike Johnson)์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋œป์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํŒŒ์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ํ‘œ๊ฒฐ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์˜ํšŒ๋ฅผ ํœดํšŒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋“ฑ ์†Œ๊ทน์ ์ธ ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ๊ตดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ๋กœ ์นธ๋‚˜(Ro Khanna) ์˜์›๊ณผ ์†Œ์ˆ˜์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์˜์›๋“ค๊ณผ ์—ฐํ•ฉ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ์ฒญ๋ฌธํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ์ƒ์กด ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ธฐ์žํšŒ๊ฒฌ์„ ์—ด๋ฉฐ ํŒŒ์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์˜ โ€˜์–ผ๊ตดโ€™์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์˜ ๋ˆ์งˆ๊ธด ๋…ธ๋ ฅ ๋•๋ถ„์— ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ชปํ•ด โ€˜์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ํŒŒ์ผ ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ(Epstein files transparency act)โ€˜์— ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์€ ๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ถ€(Department of Justice)๊ฐ€ ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ํŒŒ์ผ์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ฐ•์ œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์— ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ์„ ์–ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ โ€˜ํŒจ๋ฐฐโ€™๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์—๊ฒŒ ์žŠ์ง€๋„ ์šฉ์„œํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ: โ€˜ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋ƒ, ์›์น™์ด๋ƒโ€™

๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„œ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๋‚ด์—์„œ โ€˜๋งค๋ฒ„๋ฆญ(maverick)โ€˜์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์˜๋ฏธ์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฒ ํšŒํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ์š”๊ตฌํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ง์ ‘ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด DC์˜ ์ฑ…์ƒ ๋’ค์—์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์„ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ โ€˜์ง„์‹ค(ground truth)โ€˜์„ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ด๊ณณ์€ โ€˜ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋‚˜๋ผ(Trump country)โ€˜์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋”์šฑ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์„ ์ •๋ง ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜ํ•ญ์ ์ธ ์˜์›์ด ๊ฐ€๋” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์„ ๋‚œ์ฒ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์€ ์„ ํƒ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น ์ง€๋„์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งค์‹œ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์กด๊ฒฝํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๋ช…๋ น์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๋งค์‹œ ํƒ€์šดํ™€ ๋ฏธํŒ…์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ

์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์ „, ๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž์™€ ์˜คํ‚คํ”„ ํ”„๋กœ๋“€์„œ๋Š” ๋ถ„ ์นด์šดํ‹ฐ ๋ฒŒ๋งํ„ด์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์˜ ํ–‰์‚ฌ(town hall)์— ์ฐธ์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ•์› ์ฒญ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฐ ์ด ํ–‰์‚ฌ์—๋Š” 150์—ฌ ๋ช…์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐœ ๋””๋”œ ํ‹ˆ์ด ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ๋จผ์ € ์ง€๋‚œ 6๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„์˜ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ํ˜ธ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์šฐ์„ , ์ €๋Š” ์•ค๋“œ๋ฃจ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜๊ตญ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ์ง์„ ๊ทธ๋งŒ๋‘๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ฒฝ์ œํฌ๋Ÿผ(World Economic Forum) CEO๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์ž„ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“  ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ํ†ต๊ณผ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ํŒŒ์ผ ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ ๋•๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ํŒŒ์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž์‹ ์ด ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น๊ณผ 91%์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•œ โ€˜์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์›โ€™์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์˜ ์ž…๋ฒ• ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ์‚ฌ๊ณผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ๋งŒ์•ฝ ํŽ˜๋„ํ•„(pedophile)์„ ์€ํํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์˜์žฅ ์—†์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์„ ๊ฐ์‹œํ•˜๋ ค ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์‚ฐ์‹œํ‚ค๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ์— ์ฐฌ์„ฑํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋˜์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋ช‡ ๋ฒˆ์€ ๋‚˜์„œ์•ผ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ „๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น„์‹ผ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ์—, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น„์‹ผ ์˜ํšŒ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ์ถœ๋งˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์ด์œ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ƒ๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ณด์ธ ์—๋“œ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ โ€œ์ƒ๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ณด์˜ ๊ตฐ ๋ณต๋ฌด๋Š” ์กด์ค‘ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ผ๋ถ€ ์˜์›๋“ค์€ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด DC์— ๊ฐ€๋ฉด โ€˜๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€? ํ•˜์›์˜์žฅ์ธ๊ฐ€? ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ธ๊ฐ€?โ€˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌป๋Š” ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ €์ง€๋ฅธ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์ด ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ โ€˜๊ณ ๋ฌด๋„์žฅ(rubber stamp)โ€˜์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋น„ํŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์ž…๋ฒ•๋ถ€ ์†Œ์†์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€์— ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” 75๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์—๊ฒŒ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด ์ €์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ์•ฝ 15๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ์—ฐ์„คํ•œ ํ›„ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ฒญ์ค‘์—๊ฒŒ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์˜๊ฒฌ์€ ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์„ ์—ด๋ ฌํžˆ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‚˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์›์น™์„ ์นญ์ฐฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ์˜ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ์„ ํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์›์น™ ์—†๋Š” ์ •์น˜์ธ์„ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ถˆํ‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์›๋‹˜์€ ์›์น™์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค์‹œ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธˆ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ํšŒ์˜์ ์ธ ์ฒญ์ค‘๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฒ ์Šค ์Šค๋ฏธ์Šค(Elizabeth Smith)๋ผ๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์€ ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ โ€œ์ด๋ฒˆ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” โ€œ๋‚ด ์ธ์ƒ์—์„œ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งค์ผ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ๋งค์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ํ™•๊ณ ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€์ž์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด โ€˜์˜ค, ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„โ€™ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋”์ฐํ•œ ๋ง๋“ค์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์˜์›๋‹˜๊ป˜ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.โ€

์Šค๋ฏธ์Šค๋Š” ๋งค์‹œ์—๊ฒŒ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ์š”๊ตฌํ•  ๋•Œ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์™œ ๋งค์‹œ์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, โ€œ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์˜์›๋‹˜๋„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๊ณ  ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด ์—ญ์„ค์ ์ธ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์กฐํ™”์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋„์™€๋‹ฌ๋ผโ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ โ€œ์ €๋Š” ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์— ๋งž์„œ ์ถœ๋งˆํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์กด๊ฒฝํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ์ด๊ธด๋‹ค๋ฉด โ€œํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜ํ•ญํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ˜ํ•ญ ๊ทธ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ž์‹ ๋„ ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋˜ โ€˜๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์šฐ์„ ์ฃผ์˜โ€™ ์›์น™์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•จ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต(Q&A) ์„ธ์…˜์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋๋‚  ๋ฌด๋ ต, ๋งˆํฌ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ผ(Mark Graphy)๋ผ๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ”ผ๋ ฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ธฐ์— ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์€ ์ด๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ผ, ์ด๋ž€, ๊ฒฝ์ œ, ์ •์น˜, DEI, ์›Œํฌ๋‹ˆ์Šค(wokeness) ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์ฒด์—์„œ, ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ JD ๋ฐด์Šค(JD Vance)๋‚˜ ์˜ํšŒ ์–ด๋А ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ •๋ณด, ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํšŒ์˜, ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ ‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ โ€œ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๋‹น์‹ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ์™œ ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๋ช…๋ฐฑํ•œ ์ง€์‹๊ณผ ์ง€๋Šฅ์˜ ์šฐ์›”์„ฑ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๋А๋ƒโ€๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์ด โ€œ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ •๋ง ์ค‘์š”ํ–ˆ๋˜ 4~5๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฌ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์ €๋Š” ์˜์›๋‹˜์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์›๋‹˜์€ 7๋ฒˆ ์ถœ๋งˆํ•˜์…จ์ฃ ? ์ฒ˜์Œ 6๋ฒˆ์€ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•ด์„œ ํˆฌํ‘œํ–ˆ๊ณ , 7๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ๋‚˜์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ํˆฌํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ์˜์›๋‹˜์—๊ฒŒ ๋งž์„œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋งŽ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์˜์›๋‹˜์ด ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ํ†ต๊ณผ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

์ด ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ ค 14๋ถ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธธ๊ณ  ์ง€๋ฃจํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ธ๋‚ด์‹ฌ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๋งํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋‚ด๋ฒ„๋ ค ๋‘์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฐ€๋”์”ฉ์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ฃผ์žฅ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์†Œํฌ๋ผํ…Œ์Šค์‹ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ง€๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ํŒŒ์ผ์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“  ์žฅ๋ณธ์ธ์ด๊ณ , ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ฐ˜์—ญ ํ–‰์œ„๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?โ€

โ€œํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ํŒŒ์ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์•Œ์•˜๊ธฐ์— 180๋„ ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊ฟจ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ด ๋ฐฉ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋˜‘๋˜‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์„œ ๊ทธ ํŒŒ์ผ๋“ค์ด ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ ธ์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?โ€

๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ผ๋Š” ํŒŒ์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์— ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ํŒŒ์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์— ์ €ํ•ญํ•œ ๋ฐ์—๋Š” โ€œ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐํžˆ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋” ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์•”์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฏํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ โ€œ1์ฒœ ๋ช…์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋…€๋“ค์ด ์„ฑ์ถ”ํ–‰, ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„, ์„ฑ๋งค๋งค์— ์—ฐ๋ฃจ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , 15์„ธ์— ๋ชจ์ง‘๋˜์–ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์†Œ๋…€๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋ชจ์ง‘ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉฐ โ€œ์ €๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์“ฐ๋Š” ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ผ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ผ๋Š” ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์˜ ํ–‰๋™์ด ์˜ณ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์  ๊ฒฌํ•ด์™€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋” ํฐ ๋ฏฟ์Œ, ์ฆ‰ โ€˜ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค(Trump we trust)โ€˜๋Š” ์‹ ๋…์„ โ€˜๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์šฐ์„ ์ฃผ์˜โ€™ ์›์น™๊ณผ ์กฐํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋ ค ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฏํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋‹น์‹ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋Œ€์ค‘์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ๋‹จํ˜ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ €๋Š” ์‹  ์™ธ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์€ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ผ์™€ ์•…์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ฉฐ โ€œ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์ด ๊ตํ™˜๊ณผ ํƒ€์šดํ™€ ๋ฏธํŒ… ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด, โ€œํ† ๋งˆ์Šค ๋งค์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•˜์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๊ณผ์˜ ๋ถ„์—ด์ด ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๊ฐ์ธ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํŒ๋ˆ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, โ€œํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋‘˜ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—ฌ์ง€๋Š” ์—†๋‹คโ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด์˜ ์ „๋žต: โ€˜ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์ถฉ์‹คํ•œ ๋ณ‘์‚ฌโ€™

๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์˜ ํ–‰์‚ฌ ๋ฉฐ์น  ํ›„, ๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž์™€ ์˜คํ‚คํ”„ ํ”„๋กœ๋“€์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด์˜ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์–ธ๋ก ์ธ๋“ค๋งŒ ์ฐธ์„ํ•œ ์ด ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ•œ ์ œ์กฐ ๊ณต์žฅ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ ธ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ƒ๊ณตํšŒ์˜์†Œ(US Chamber of Commerce)๊ฐ€ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต์‹ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฃผ๋œ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด๋Š” ์•ฝ 10~15๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ์—ฐ์„คํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์„ โ€œ์ •์น˜์ธ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์„ธ๋Œ€์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋†์—…์„ ํ•ด์˜จ ์ง‘์•ˆ ์ถœ์‹ ์ž„์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•ด๊ตฐ ํŠน์ˆ˜๋ถ€๋Œ€ ๋„ค์ด๋น„์‹ค ์žฅ๊ต๋กœ์„œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ๋™์„ฑํ›ˆ์žฅ(Bronze Star)์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ตœ๊ทผ์—๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ์š”์ฒญ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ •์น˜ ์ผ์„ ์— ๋‚˜์„ฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์ €๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น, ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น, ๊ทธ์˜ โ€˜๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์šฐ์„ ์ฃผ์˜(American First)โ€˜์™€ โ€˜์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ(Kentucky Always)โ€™ ์˜์ œ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด๋Š” ๊ณง๋ฐ”๋กœ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ง€์ง€์™€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์ž์‹ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์šด๋™์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€์ž„์„ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์œ„์›ํšŒ์—์„œ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€์ง€, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์  ์œ„์ƒ์ด๋‚˜ ํŠน์ • ์ง€์ถœ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์˜ค์ง ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ฃผ์˜์ž๋“ค์„ ์˜ํšŒ์— ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ฑฐ์˜ 7,800๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์—๊ฒŒ ํˆฌํ‘œํ–ˆ๊ณ , 31๊ฐœ ์ฃผ์—์„œ ์Šน๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค์œ™ ์Šคํ…Œ์ดํŠธ(swing states)๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•ด์„œ์š”. 312๋ช…์˜ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์ธ๋‹จ ๋“ํ‘œ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์ด โ€œํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋‹น๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ด ์˜์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ†ต๊ณผ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ€๋กœ๋ง‰์•˜๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋น„๋‚œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น, ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ฃผ์˜์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•  ์˜์›์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ž๊ฒฉ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜์›์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ์š”.โ€ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์€ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์ง€์ง€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋” ์ž˜ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด์˜ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋งค์‹œ ์˜์›์˜ ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ํƒ€์šดํ™€ ๋ฏธํŒ…๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, โ€˜์•ˆ์ „์žฅ์น˜(guard rails)โ€˜๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ํ†ต์ œ๋œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด โ€œํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๋งค์‹œ๋ฅผ ์••๋„์ ์ธ ํž˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„์‡„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„์ ˆํžˆ ์›ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์˜ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์šด๋™์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ๋ฐœ์ž๊ตญ(light footprint)์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋Š” ์—ญ์„ค์ ์ธ ์š”์†Œ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ โ€œ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ์‹ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๋„ ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ์กฐ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋Š” ์ ๋„ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ๊ผฝ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ํ›„๋ณด์—๊ฒŒ ์ง์ ‘ โ€œ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ โ€˜๊ณ ๋ฌด๋„์žฅโ€™์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€? ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์—๊ฒŒ ํ”๋“ค๋ฆผ ์—†์ด ์ถฉ์„ฑํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์งˆ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ด๋ ฅ(๋„ค์ด๋น„์‹ค ์ถœ์‹ , 5๊ฐœ์˜ ๋™์„ฑํ›ˆ์žฅ)์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ โ€œ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ(individual courage)โ€œ์™€ โ€œ์ •์น˜์  ๋…๋ฆฝ(political independence)โ€œ์„ ํ˜ผ๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ๋‚ด๋†“์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ์ง€, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์™€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋„์žฅ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ์ผ ์—†์„ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋„์žฅ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ์ผ๋„ ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ โ€œ์–ด๋–ค ํ•˜์› ์œ„์›ํšŒ์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๊ฐ€?โ€๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์กŒ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์˜ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์ €๋Š” ์กด์Šจ ์˜์žฅ๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  JD์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์„œ โ€˜์ฝ”์น˜๋‹˜, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””์— ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?โ€˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ”„๋žญํด๋ฆฐ ์‹ฌ์Šจ์—์„œ, ์„ผํ„ฐ ์นผ๋ฆฌ์ง€์—์„œ, ๋จธ๋ ˆ์ด์—์„œ ๊ณต์„ ์ฐผ์„ ๋•Œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํŒ€ ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ†ต์น˜(governing)๋Š” ํŒ€ ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ €์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ํฌ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ๋งž์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ „์ฒด ํŒ€์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?โ€

๊ทธ๋Š” ์กด์Šจ ์˜์žฅ๊ณผ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ž์‹ ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ž์‹ ์€ ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ๋”ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” โ€œ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ์ด ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์˜ํšŒ์˜ ํŠน๊ถŒ์€ ํŒ€์— ์†ํ•ด ์žˆ๋“  ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์›ํ•˜๋“  ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์˜์›๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค ๋งค์‹œ์˜ ์˜ํšŒ ๋น„์ „๊ณผ๋Š” ๊ทน๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€๋น„๋˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋“œ๋ ˆ์ดํผ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ํŒŒ์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์‹œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ–‰๋™ํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์€ โ€œํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๊ณผ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ๋„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฟ ๋ฐ” ์ •๊ถŒ ์ „๋ณต์— ์ฐฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฌป๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์—๋„ ๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ์ฟ ๋ฐ”์ธ๋“ค์„ ํ•ด๋ฐฉ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋“  ๊ดœ์ฐฎ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ์€ ์งง์€ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๊ฐœ์ธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•  ์–ด๋–ค ์•”์‹œ๋„ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , ๋Œ€์‹  ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์Œ๋จน์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋“  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜์กฐ๋ ฅ์ž(enabler)โ€˜๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž„์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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