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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That's an optimistic interpretation, but I just don't think the Republicans were going to cooperate on this.
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I think, you know, I don't think that's true.
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The Democrats are the minority party.
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The Republicans had to deal with a shutdown.
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They owned it.
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I mean, the polls were against them on this.
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The other thing is now, yeah, the Republicans got what they want.
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But as the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for, because now they're going to end those subsidies.
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in this budget and they're going to have to have a debate or not, because that's the other thing.
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If they choose to duck out of this promised vote on health care, that becomes an issue.
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I don't think any of this was good for the Republicans in any way.
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And I think
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You know, I get that people want the Democrats to have spine.
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But there's also when I used to teach strategy at the Naval War College, we always say, you know, doomed crusades are romantic, but they're not good strategy.
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And at some point, again, at some point, the shutdown was going to have to end.
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How does it end?
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The other possibility that it could have ended with the Republicans nuking the filibusters.
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Yes.
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Some Democrats wanted some Democrats don't.
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But when Donald Trump wants it, which was that was his preferred outcome.
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