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The Bulwark Podcast

Tom Nichols: Drama Queens About Everything

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Republican men used to be stoic and quiet technocrats, but now they're screechy and freaky. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has a whole crop of strong, silent types to choose from as a running mate.

Plus, a shout-out to Charlie Sykes, movies Tim hasn't seen, and can we quit the identity-oriented Zooms for Kamala? Tom Nichols joins Tim Miller.

show notes:

Tom's piece on the manliness flip-flop
Tom's piece on Biden stepping aside
Charlie on how Never Trumpers really mean never
Trump's 400 kids remark

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Bullard

0:09.4

Clodcast I'm your host Tim Miller.

0:11.2

We're bringing in the big guns this week. It's Tom Nichols is back.

0:14.0

Professor Emeritus at the Naval War College. He's a staff writer at the Atlantic

0:18.1

author of the Atlantic Daily newsletter. His books include The Death of Expertise, which has an updated edition.

0:24.4

What's up brother? Thanks for being back on the pop.

0:26.7

Hey Tim, thanks for having me. Good to be back, man.

0:29.0

Isaac Arn's Dorf, a reporter who was on with us a couple of months ago, has some audio from J.D. Vance.

0:35.0

It's, you know, maybe a little inconvenient.

0:37.3

Maybe Mr. Trump, it might be mad at him again.

0:39.6

Let's-

0:40.6

Isn't there always some audio from J.D. Vance that's a little inconvenient.

0:44.1

We can do a whole podcast of it, but today I'm just going to pick this one.

0:47.6

Let's take a listen.

0:48.2

This was Caitlin Collins playing the audio last night on CNN.

0:52.0

All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch.

0:55.0

The bad news is that Kamala Harris does not have the same baggage as Joe Biden because whatever

1:01.7

we might say,

1:03.6

Kala Harris is a lot younger, and Kala Harris

1:06.5

is obviously not struggling in the same ways

1:09.0

that Joe Biden did.

1:10.5

Candid comments there, and they may just be an accurate assessment of how much

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