Rebroadcast: Who's to blame for America's polarized politics? Tom Nichols says 'All of us'

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Who's to blame for America's polarized politics? The government? The media? Special interests? Tom Nichols says the problem is 'all of us.'

Tom Nichols and Jack Beatty join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:18.9	This is on point.
0:25.2	I'm Megna Chacrabardi.
0:26.7	Tom Nichols is our guest today.
0:29.0	He's a national security scholar at the US Naval War College,
0:32.7	a Twitter provocateur par excellence, and author of many books,
0:37.4	the latest of which is our own worst enemy,
0:41.2	the assault from within on modern democracy.
0:44.4	Welcome back to on point, Tom.
0:46.5	Thank you, Megna.
0:47.1	Going to be back.
0:47.9	Well, yesterday we primed the pump a bit and asked listeners,
0:52.4	our Americans, narcissists, really political narcissists
0:56.3	because politics feel so polarized right now
0:58.8	is the problem actually us.
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