Tom Nichols

Yeah, the things that will really put groceries on the table for working class Americans. You know, like a lot of those. I was a former federal employee. You know why work at home was encouraged? It's cheaper for the government. The government gets to offload the costs of you working to you. You pay for your own lights and heat and toner cartridges and whatever.

And it's like these just these dumb kind of, oh, I think. I think that was COVID. And I think there's some people sitting at home. So let's do that on day one. Because, you know, with all the things happening in the world, you know, flags and birthright citizenship and all this, I mean, it's just there was just a kind of, like I said, a kind of petty pissiness about the whole thing.

And it's like these just these dumb kind of, oh, I think. I think that was COVID. And I think there's some people sitting at home. So let's do that on day one. Because, you know, with all the things happening in the world, you know, flags and birthright citizenship and all this, I mean, it's just there was just a kind of, like I said, a kind of petty pissiness about the whole thing.

And it's like these just these dumb kind of, oh, I think. I think that was COVID. And I think there's some people sitting at home. So let's do that on day one. Because, you know, with all the things happening in the world, you know, flags and birthright citizenship and all this, I mean, it's just there was just a kind of, like I said, a kind of petty pissiness about the whole thing.

That, again, makes me almost, am I going to sound weird by saying almost optimistic, Tim?

That, again, makes me almost, am I going to sound weird by saying almost optimistic, Tim?

That, again, makes me almost, am I going to sound weird by saying almost optimistic, Tim?

My rage is spent. I'm standing on the corner reading a newspaper while Thelma and Louise are zooming by me in a cloud of dust. But the optimism, I wrote this just as Trump was being elected. And I said, look, he has the soul of a fascist, but the mind of a disordered child. But, you know, on the other hand, a child with a flamethrower.

My rage is spent. I'm standing on the corner reading a newspaper while Thelma and Louise are zooming by me in a cloud of dust. But the optimism, I wrote this just as Trump was being elected. And I said, look, he has the soul of a fascist, but the mind of a disordered child. But, you know, on the other hand, a child with a flamethrower.

My rage is spent. I'm standing on the corner reading a newspaper while Thelma and Louise are zooming by me in a cloud of dust. But the optimism, I wrote this just as Trump was being elected. And I said, look, he has the soul of a fascist, but the mind of a disordered child. But, you know, on the other hand, a child with a flamethrower.

So, you know, I'm just trying to find the one bit of possible. Yeah, you're right. There is no optimism to be funny.

So, you know, I'm just trying to find the one bit of possible. Yeah, you're right. There is no optimism to be funny.

So, you know, I'm just trying to find the one bit of possible. Yeah, you're right. There is no optimism to be funny.

American carnage. This American carnage ends now. He tried to bookend it. And may I just say, as a former speechwriter, his speeches are terrible. Horrible. He's better when he riffs, to be honest with you. Well. He tried to bookend that with, you know, now the greatness begins now, this sense of urgency. But you're right.

American carnage. This American carnage ends now. He tried to bookend it. And may I just say, as a former speechwriter, his speeches are terrible. Horrible. He's better when he riffs, to be honest with you. Well. He tried to bookend that with, you know, now the greatness begins now, this sense of urgency. But you're right.

American carnage. This American carnage ends now. He tried to bookend it. And may I just say, as a former speechwriter, his speeches are terrible. Horrible. He's better when he riffs, to be honest with you. Well. He tried to bookend that with, you know, now the greatness begins now, this sense of urgency. But you're right.

He was talking as if, you know, like he was the military governor of Japan in 1946 or something. Look, that's their narrative, okay? These are people who have comfortable lives, who live in – you know, in small towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana where nobody is actually bothering anybody.

He was talking as if, you know, like he was the military governor of Japan in 1946 or something. Look, that's their narrative, okay? These are people who have comfortable lives, who live in – you know, in small towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana where nobody is actually bothering anybody.

He was talking as if, you know, like he was the military governor of Japan in 1946 or something. Look, that's their narrative, okay? These are people who have comfortable lives, who live in – you know, in small towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana where nobody is actually bothering anybody.

You know, you're not having regiments of graduate students marching down the street, you know, plastering rainbow stickers on stuff. This is an imagined sense of grievance and oppression that Trump always appeals to to say, and now I will save you. I mean, I wonder if overplaying that argument As he did in 2016, that people will say, you know, it's been four years, nothing's going to change.