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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because that I think causes a lot of the trouble we've seen.
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I think in 2016, I think if about 20, 40, 50,000 people had voted strategically rather than, you know, based on what they get on vibes and what they wanted, Donald Trump would never have been president.
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He just sounds like a sensible man who, you know, especially I think you see that a lot with people who run a business, you know, because they have to pay attention to legislation about things like wages and taxes and stuff like that.
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um you know it i i've been tearing my hair off for years about the the basic civic illiteracy of millions of americans i wrote a book a few years ago called uh our own worst enemy and it was stunning to me there were stories that i put in that book um of the complete inconsistency in the american voter which makes it really hard to craft a message to get across to the median voter there was one case
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A woman who was a Democrat who was voting in the Iowa caucuses.
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And, you know, those those are nutty, right, because you got to go in and you convince people and you come out and you vote again.
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And she said, well, I really like Pete Buttigieg.
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You know, I thought about Bernie, but I really like Pete Buttigieg.
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But if he doesn't win, I guess in the general, I'll just vote for Donald Trump.
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And I you know, you hear something that you say, wait, what what what what does that mean?
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Like, how are you even voting?
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What is it?
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What is it you want?
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You know, and this is now this is somebody who's really engaged because this is a caucus debate.
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goer who's going to go into these meetings and argue with everybody about stuff.
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And I just kind of blew my mind to say, I understood the Bernie and Trump voters, right?
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I didn't get Bernie, so I'm going for Trump because I just want to disrupt her.
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I just want somebody who's going to throw the system into chaos and turn things around.
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But when you start by saying, yeah, really like the cut of Pete Buttigieg's jib, but if I don't get him, I'll vote for Donald Trump.
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Imagine trying to do politics in that kind of an environment.
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