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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I mean, I have when I was a federal employee, I would say, look, I'm here in my capacity as a private citizen and I don't represent the views of the Defense Department.
I didn't happen to be the defense secretary.
But I didn't then add to that.
Now, speaking as a War College professor, you know, he's playing very cute with this.
So federal employees under the Hatch Act can participate in political events.
We don't give up our First Amendment rights.
But at that level, you know, he's really cutting it very fine about what's a legal or not legal participation political campaign.
He's obviously there because he's secretary of defense.
And I don't think anybody believes that, you know, that that nonsense he said at the beginning of it.
But just so people understand that under the Hatch Act, federal employees can do stuff like this.
But I don't think the way that that that Hegseth did it today.
But it doesn't matter.
Look, I think one of the problems here is that there's still an almost quaint idea that what we're arguing about in America is policy.
How big should the deficit be?
How, you know, what should we do about it?
You know, the deficit.
None of that matters.
The president has made this, there is only one issue in American politics at the top, and that is, do you support me and any lawless thing I want to do, or don't you?
And you're either a friend, and you're with me, and you support what I want to do, or you're an enemy.
And you're an enemy, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, an independent, a libertarian.
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