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Tom Nichols

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The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

And they would like a 65 inch TV. That's their one thing in life that they're going to put in the man cave. It's very American, actually. Yeah. But it's Joe Biden's fault. I heard this was just before we started today. Kevin Hassett was on and he's like, yeah, these jobs numbers. No, they're good because they represent. I mean, he Kevin Hassett is really a kind of.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

you know, that genial smiling ability to just spin anything where he said, well, yeah, there was. But, you know, these were basically jobs that were created by Joe Biden and their government jobs. So really, the jobs report is just us. I mean, I'm not making this up, right? It's just us correcting the Joe Biden government jobs boom. Good luck with that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

you know, that genial smiling ability to just spin anything where he said, well, yeah, there was. But, you know, these were basically jobs that were created by Joe Biden and their government jobs. So really, the jobs report is just us. I mean, I'm not making this up, right? It's just us correcting the Joe Biden government jobs boom. Good luck with that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

you know, that genial smiling ability to just spin anything where he said, well, yeah, there was. But, you know, these were basically jobs that were created by Joe Biden and their government jobs. So really, the jobs report is just us. I mean, I'm not making this up, right? It's just us correcting the Joe Biden government jobs boom. Good luck with that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

Again, you're going to have people in a lot of red parts of the country saying, I don't recall Joe Biden giving me this job. that I'm losing. And I think with the market going up and down, again, the rationalizations are incredible. Oh, well, buy the dip. It's a good time to buy. Okay, but if you're retired, it's not a good time to withdraw and say, I don't know, eat or warm your home.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

Again, you're going to have people in a lot of red parts of the country saying, I don't recall Joe Biden giving me this job. that I'm losing. And I think with the market going up and down, again, the rationalizations are incredible. Oh, well, buy the dip. It's a good time to buy. Okay, but if you're retired, it's not a good time to withdraw and say, I don't know, eat or warm your home.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

Again, you're going to have people in a lot of red parts of the country saying, I don't recall Joe Biden giving me this job. that I'm losing. And I think with the market going up and down, again, the rationalizations are incredible. Oh, well, buy the dip. It's a good time to buy. Okay, but if you're retired, it's not a good time to withdraw and say, I don't know, eat or warm your home.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

with what what's in your retirement it is a remarkable inability to ever criticize donald trump or even to say what you just said in a kind of measured way that you know the jobs report was kind of meh but there are some bad signs but it's not horrible but there's some clouds on the horizon and and instead you just get you know the leader is the leader is good the leader is great we surrender our will as of this date

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

with what what's in your retirement it is a remarkable inability to ever criticize donald trump or even to say what you just said in a kind of measured way that you know the jobs report was kind of meh but there are some bad signs but it's not horrible but there's some clouds on the horizon and and instead you just get you know the leader is the leader is good the leader is great we surrender our will as of this date

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

with what what's in your retirement it is a remarkable inability to ever criticize donald trump or even to say what you just said in a kind of measured way that you know the jobs report was kind of meh but there are some bad signs but it's not horrible but there's some clouds on the horizon and and instead you just get you know the leader is the leader is good the leader is great we surrender our will as of this date

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

And you just got at something, Tim, which is all of this is happening. We talk about memory holes and Stalinism. All of this is happening as if Donald Trump had never been president. Yeah. Right? It's like, I'm finally going to make America great and end this terrible situation where you look familiar. Yeah.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

And you just got at something, Tim, which is all of this is happening. We talk about memory holes and Stalinism. All of this is happening as if Donald Trump had never been president. Yeah. Right? It's like, I'm finally going to make America great and end this terrible situation where you look familiar. Yeah.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

And you just got at something, Tim, which is all of this is happening. We talk about memory holes and Stalinism. All of this is happening as if Donald Trump had never been president. Yeah. Right? It's like, I'm finally going to make America great and end this terrible situation where you look familiar. Yeah.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

You know, weren't you the... And, you know, we've got to do something with this terrible deal with Mexico.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

You know, weren't you the... And, you know, we've got to do something with this terrible deal with Mexico.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

You know, weren't you the... And, you know, we've got to do something with this terrible deal with Mexico.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

As with Ukraine, as with all the other things we've been talking about, you can't defend it without completely sort of staring into the middle distance while your body and your mind where your mind dissociates from your body like an accident victim. And you end up having to say things that you know are true. Just bonkers. I agree with you, but I disagree with you.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

As with Ukraine, as with all the other things we've been talking about, you can't defend it without completely sort of staring into the middle distance while your body and your mind where your mind dissociates from your body like an accident victim. And you end up having to say things that you know are true. Just bonkers. I agree with you, but I disagree with you.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

As with Ukraine, as with all the other things we've been talking about, you can't defend it without completely sort of staring into the middle distance while your body and your mind where your mind dissociates from your body like an accident victim. And you end up having to say things that you know are true. Just bonkers. I agree with you, but I disagree with you.

The Bulwark Podcast
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

I agree with you this is unsustainable in a normal world. In the first Trump term, we would say these things are unsustainable. And sure enough, Tillerson or Mattis or even Mnuchin or whoever would kind of say, all right, all right, we got it. But this bunch, this is just kind of โ€“