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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I know exactly how that feels.
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Well, OK, but the people you were talking to are the most engaged kind of, you know, Democratic voters.
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the problem for the Democrats is that they always have to play for kind of that marginal voter, for that undecided voter, for the voters who may just stay home or, you know, not Trump voters.
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You're never going to convince them.
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But, you know, I worry sometimes that Democratic voters, they get these super high expectations saying, this time we were going to fight, this time we were going to win.
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If Trump wasn't going to cave and the Republicans were willing to let the whole country melt down, which they were more than willing to do, apparently,
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Eventually, that wasn't first of all, that that doesn't achieve anything.
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And it was going to hurt the Democrats at some point.
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I think I agree with the fathers.
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One guy with a W on his shirt and he was talking about, you know, at some point you have to reopen the government.
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They made their point.
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And one reason I agree with that is here we are talking about health care, which, you know, until recently, until the Democrats did this.
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Nobody was really talking about.
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And now the Republicans have to own what's about to come next with with what they're going to do to health care subsidies.
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So, you know, in that sense, they did achieve something.
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But the real question is what went to the people who say I wanted them to keep fighting.
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How long and to what end is always the question.
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Like I said, if this were going on through Thanksgiving and into Christmas, I think at some point, Jeffries and Schumer and everybody else, the Democratic Party would have started to take the blame for it.
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Think of it this way.
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The Democrats may have ended this when they had gotten as far and gotten as much out of it as they could get.
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