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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Well, mostly in that piece, I'm talking about the reaction whenever they're challenged.
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You know, when somebody...
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uh search dade says hey who picked the the spot for this possible uk or u.s russia summit in hungary and carolyn levitt says your mom um you know they they have this kind of sixth grade troubled child sensibility but one thing that is
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I think related to that about these boat strikes is that they do them.
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They do stuff like this just to prove that they can just to kind of flex that muscle and show people that they can do whatever they want.
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You know, I've used this quote before.
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It's something I stole from Henry James from the classic novella, The Turn of the Screw, where this nasty kid who's under the tutelage of a ghost says,
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He does something terrible, and his governess says, why did you do that?
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And the kid smiles, and he says, to show you that I could and that I will again.
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And that is a big part of what this administration does with everything.
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Why are you blackbagging people off the streets in Chicago?
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Why are you blowing up ships?
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In part, to establish the precedent that the president can do anything he wants.
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And if anybody watching is a fan of the boys,
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On Amazon, I wrote a piece a few months ago.
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I called the president, President Homelander.
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He's like the character Homelander who always says, I'm super powered and I can do anything I want and nobody can ever say no to me.
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And I think that's partly why they do these things, just to prove that they can.
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The problem, trying to win a shutdown is like trying to win a nuclear war.
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And, you know, my colleagues, Russell Berman and John Lemire have a piece in Today's Atlantic where they point out that no party that's ever initiated a shutdown has ever gotten the thing they wanted out of the shutdown, whether it's Republicans or Democrats.
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