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@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
Hegseth is exactly the kind of narrow, educated-but-not-intelligent, narcissistic springbutt kind of officer faculty always dreaded getting in a War College seminar.
@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)
Hello Mr. Nichols, Your takes have been predictably idiotic for years. Up until today, I had dismissed you as just another forgettable Atlantic opinion hack... alongside with Anne Applebaum, architect of Biden's "Soul of the Nation" speech that branded half the country as existential threats, and whom @MikeBenzCyber exposed as a double agent. But I took a look at your LinkedIn. I had no clue you actually held a professorship at the Naval War College. @infantrydort nailed it: your mere presence there demands a hard look at the entire institution. And as for the rest of your post. Hegseth doesn't tremble at War College seminars. Especially not when the faculty included someone like you.
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
The "genocide" debate here is activists trying to seize the high ground after Hamas's hideous acts. Their hope, after an assault of such barbarity, is to label the response "genocidal" and hope that people chase that shiny lure instead of remembering why this war happened at all.
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
Young voters, sitting in the car, ready to floor the accelerator over the cliff
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
If you really want to understand the roots of rage in the red states, think about how much time people in those states spending think about cities and blue states. Now considcer how little time anyone in those places spends thinking about what goes on in, say, rural Alabama. /1
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
In part, as I explain in my last book, it's because people now have an *awareness* of how other people live, and the dominant culture in America is rapidly becoming a coastal entertainment/ politics /etc culture. This isn't about money, it's about *resentment* /2
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
People on what is now called "the right" are obsessed with how people live in other places, and they are *furious* that no one cares how *they* live and basically would ignore them if they'd just leave other people alone (and respect their rights as Americans). /3
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
And so Blue culture reporters go and trek to the East Jesus Pancake House to let people vent about lib'ruls and all that crap, when what America needs are buses taking people for walking tours of Boston and Chicago and yes, even San Francisco. (At least know what you hate). /4
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
We now live remarkably similar lives, rich and working class, North and South, Heartland and Coasts. But this is not about living or money, it's about *attention and respect*, and Red Staters are insanely angry that winning everything in 2016 produced none. In fact... /5
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
The past seven or eight years have produced the *opposite*, a kind of confirmation among many Americans that, as my pal @SECupp once said, the Forgotten Man was forgotten *for a reason* lt wasn't supposed to be like this. Libs were supposed to be owned and contrite. /6
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
It's not about "tradition" or any of that hooey; most of these people couldn't explain any of that stuff for five seconds. It's about the sense that the dominant culture (and sure, there is one) just doesn't like or care about them very much. /7
@RadioFreeTom - Tom Nichols
Anyway, you can read a lot more about this kind of resentment and the political poison it creates here. 8x https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55332376
