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The Bulwark Podcast

Tom Nichols: The Kook Bench

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The drunken heckling caucus around Marjorie Taylor Greene is not out of control — it did exactly what its voters sent them to do. And Tucker Carlson is playing to that base, which has contempt for people with an education. Tom Nichols joins Charlie Sykes today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the Bullwork Podcast.

0:40.0

It is February 9, 2023.

0:43.0

Man, that was just embarrassing.

0:46.0

I mean, embarrassing.

0:48.0

And we're joined by our good friend Tom Nichols, Professor Emeritus at the Naval College,

0:52.0

now a staff writer at the Atlantic and author of the Atlantic Daily Newsletter.

0:56.0

Tom, welcome back to the podcast.

0:58.0

One of the few places where you still have tenure.

1:00.0

Thank you, Charlie.

1:02.0

It feels like home just to hear that.

1:04.0

So that was really, really, really embarrassing.

1:07.0

Now, the thing about this is, you could go any number of ways,

1:10.0

because I could be referring to about 12 different things right now, right?

1:15.0

Right.

1:16.0

I mean, we could be talking about the heckling.

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