Tom Nichols

I'm a middle American.

I love kitschy crap.

But I don't, but again, I don't stay up all night saying, no, why don't people like, you know, why?

Why am I in the minority?

Why do these people look down on me?

I think that's what all of this is.

I have a degree from Harvard.

Why do they look down on me?

I have a degree from Princeton.

For somebody who talks about how much he hates pointy heads and smarty pants, Donald Trump never shuts up about having and his uncle at MIT.

These are people who crave

acceptance from the dominant kind of elite institutions and when they don't feel accepted by them decide to turn on people with just rage and a kind of burn it down mentality and i'll say one more thing you saw this in pete hegg's announcement about harvard he said you know for years we've been sending military people to harvard in hopes that they would understand us that's not why you send military people to harvard

You send them to Harvard so they can get an education so that they can learn about the world and so they can sit side by side with the civilians they're going to have to work with in the real world.

But not for Hexa.

It was such a needy line in that announcement.

We send them to Harvard because we want them to understand us.

You know, just... That ain't it.

To emulate one more Simpsons character, Sideshow Bob, let me just say...

If you've been caught lying about your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, not only should you resign, you should want to.

I'm listening to all this and I'm thinking, and this is a name Rick will know because it's old Cold War history, but back in 1963, there was a British defense minister named John Profumo.