Tom Nichols
speaker
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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You know, like he's basically just doing that.
And the problem is not that Trump is doing it.
Trump is as predictable as a sunrise.
He will do whatever he can get away with.
The problem becomes comes that your friends and neighbors, your people in your community, your fellow citizens and voters.
You know, are basically shrugging and going, you know, everything's corrupt.
Everybody's corrupt.
Everybody does it.
Everybody rips off money.
That's how democracies end up going down.
When that level of cynicism and that level of the willingness to believe anything about anybody at any time just overtakes people to the point where they become sort of intentionally stupid all the time.
and just wrap their heads in styrofoam and choose not to see anything, that's how democracies die.
Not because Trump is trying to get away with things.
Trump's always trying to get away with things.
The problem is that there are tens of millions of people who either
actively support this or just don't care, just don't think it's relevant to them.
And I think it's remarkable at a time when people are complaining about the economy, about wastes of money, about the price of groceries, the price of gas, that the president sets up a nearly $2 billion slush fund.
And again, millions of Americans go, huh, you know, what are you going to do?
That's how it is.
And that's how democracies end up falling apart.
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