S2 Ep1033: Tom Nichols: The Hollow Opportunists

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Marco Rubio was supposed to be one of the only adults in the room, and now he's become a shell of himself executing Trump's unwinding of the US role in the world. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi just can't keep her blubbering sycophancy under wraps. Plus, Mike Waltz's ouster at NSA, our shakedown of Ukraine with a minerals deal, Trump's pettiness is getting lost in the firehose of his revenge, and even the president of El Salvador doubts the criminality of the people ICE is sending to CECOT.

Tom Nichols join Tim Miller.
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Tim Miller, a few quick housekeeping items.
0:18.0	The Chicago event with Adam Kinsinger sold out.
0:24.8	Sorry, you can stand outside and, I don't know, throw underwear at Kinsinger if you want, but the tickets are no longer available.
0:27.0	Nashville is available May 29th, the blog.com slash tickets.
0:32.0	Yesterday, I interviewed Chris Van Hollen, center of Chris Van Hollen.
0:35.4	So make sure you're not missing those bonus interviews and instant reaction hot takes I'm doing on YouTube.
0:41.4	We're putting them in the Bullwork Takes podcast feed for you audio folks.
0:45.3	So go check that feed out if you haven't.
0:47.4	And lastly, tonight, me, JBL and Sarah are doing a live AMA.
0:53.0	It stands for Ask Me Anything for Bullwark Plus members only on YouTube and Substack.
0:58.8	So go grab a beverage.
1:00.9	Join us at 8 p.m. Eastern.
1:02.5	I'll be pre-gaming an LCD sound system concert, so I'll have a beverage.
1:06.3	And you'll find links for this live AMA on the blog.com or on the YouTube page.
1:11.4	See you all tonight.
1:12.7	Here's the guest.
1:13.5	You know who he is.
1:14.6	Professor Emeritus, the Naval War College.
1:17.0	He's a staff writer at the Atlantic.
1:18.4	He wrote The Death of Expertise.
1:19.7	It's Tom Nichols.
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