Tom Nichols
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2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
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And that means that a lot of people in the administration about this and a lot of other things are panicking, which I think was just to be expected because there wasn't anything.
They didn't really have marching orders.
It was, let's get back into office and annoy the crap out of everybody, but not actually run the country.
And now you're seeing the results of what happens when people run purely on emotion and revenge rather than trying to do something for the United States of America.
Yeah, this is the first time I think he's really encountered something where he can't just say,
I told you to do it.
So you're going to do it because that's how his whole life has been lived.
Right.
He runs the Trump organization.
He ran the first White House that way.
You know, if I give you an order, you know, people do what I tell them to do.
How dare anyone, you know, tell me tell me no.
And this is really the first situation I think we've ever really seen him get into where he's just lost control of everything.
where he has a country of 92 million people run by religious fanatics who are saying they're not going to do what he's ordering them to do.
And he doesn't know how to deal with that.
And it's becoming, on top of it, never rule out the problem of the domestic context.
Because for him, this is embarrassing, which is even worse.
He can take a lot of things.
He can't take being embarrassed.
He can't take being...
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