Tom Nichols
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2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, they will get criticized for it.
But I just think you've got to take the risk right now because there's... There's also Senator Jasper, which is...
that there may be Democrats stepping back and saying, don't interrupt the president while he's hurting himself, because if he puts boots on the ground, the big division in this country will not be between the anti-war center left and left and everybody else.
It's going to be within the MAGA coalition
And even I'm there's a part of me that says, you know, step back from that and let them fight it out rather than giving them an opposition to coalesce against.
Because if he does put boots on the ground and I think that we're heading that way.
I mean, he's talking out of one side of his mouth about negotiations and sending, you know, the 82nd Airborne Command structure over there now.
I think that would be a politically disastrous thing to do.
But again, I'm not sure.
I mean, I guess we're in kind of heated agreement about it would be great if somebody could step up and say this is a war that was started by one man on his own authority and his own whim.
But it goes beyond that because I think that's got to be the last word we got.
You know, in a way, he's not erratic.
He's very constant.
He's like an angry little boy.
You know, that just when, you know, when people say they're not coming to his birthday party, he says, well, I didn't want you there anyway.
And, you know, I mean, it's childlike.
I mean, he really does seem that he kind of approaches the world as sort of a resentful, arrested.
development small child, because for one thing, he doesn't understand that other countries have agency.
They are not simply wholly owned subsidiaries of the United States.
They are not part of Trump enterprises.
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