Tom Nichols: Donald Trump Would Be “George Washington’s Nightmare” | Amanpour and Company
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
- Less than a month before the U.S. election, the candidates are in the final stretch of the campaign. As the polls get tighter in critical swing states, The Atlantic has officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. In his latest piece for the magazine, Tom Nichols tells readers why he believes that re-electing Donald Trump would be founding father George Washington’s worst nightmare. He joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.
Originally aired on October 10, 2024
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Amanpour and Company features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports. Christiane Amanpour leads the conversation on global and domestic news from London with contributions by prominent journalists Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin, Alicia Menendez and Hari Sreenivasan from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City.
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There are so many people of integrity & decency in USA. Why is DT seen by anyone as decent? This election is so important & so many wonderful people could be running but we have Trump 🙈
I think the guest explained that people don’t see Trump as decent but as someone who will punish people they think need punishing (because they have it too good).
@@hklinker thank you!
He's not attracting people who're looking for integrity or decency. He attracts
- the angry. And millions have good reason to be angry, and the politicians have been deflecting that for a long time, or out and out ignoring that.
- the any means to an end religious, for overturning Roe v Wade.
- the monied. He's like putty in their hands, for the low price of stroking his ego.
Decent men ran before. The Democrats smeared them to win. Perhaps you can see why one might tire of that, and eventually vote for someone who would fight back.
Americans equate wealth with goodness. They can’t believe a rich person could be evil.
If George Washington were alive today, Donald Trump wouldn’t be.
Tom Nichol's insights always bring lucidity to the conversation. As he notes, this election will tell us a lot about who we are as a nation.
Sorry to say it but I think this is who we are. It’s who we have been for some time and we should probably admit that already 😔
In my opinion, (the, THIS aspect, of "who we are" in which you referred to) is the political foundation that, (Comrade Trump & Associates) have based their entire strategy on in order to implement their agenda, and inevitably achieve their goal of being in the ultimate position of authority,
(i.e. exploiting their GOP constituents by pandering to their base-instincts, enabling their dark-side, and assuaging their guilt).
(Dictatorship 101)
Yes, poverty does have that effect, it pisses people off.
Donald Trump is easily in the top 3 best Russian presidents.
After 8 years Still spinning the Russia Russia Russia Hoax!
Scamala Harris and Tampon Tim are controlled by China 😊
I would call him more putins vice president.
Good interview Hari. Thanks for sharing your insights Tom.
"Donald Trump would be George Washington's 'worst nightmare'"?!....George Washington led a violent rebellion against a tyrannical, uncaring central government.
A lot of the grievance is legitimate. The neoliberal economic policies implemented by both the Republicans and Democrats have resulted in the hollowing out the middle class and a rapidly growing population of working poor. Income and wealth inequality is stunning. Working people in the U.S. feel abandoned; and rightly so. They are disillusioned with democracy which they feel has failed them and are primed to embrace autocracy. The Democrats better work quickly and effectively (if they get a chance) to build America back from the bottom up and the middle out or our country is going to fall like a ripe plum into the lap of one kind of tyranny or another.
We are rapidly losing the middle class. The growing divide between the rich and the 'aspiring rich' and the working class is astounding. Blue-collar wages have been stagnating for years to the point where people working two decent jobs can't afford rent. It makes me think of my college study of Das Kapital. Marx was an evil genius; he predicted everything so accurately, it's frightening.
richard wolff and robert reich
the US is an oligarchy swinging btwn 2 parties
but vote BLUE 🩵💙
VOTE RED ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Tom. Great read.
Well said.
What about Washington's Dream from SNL ?
People I once had regard for have erased that regard by their fealty to Trump. I see anyone backing Trump as being, at best, myopic and uninformed or, at worst, having deeply flawed character.
they were played for years by lies ,lies and more lies. For fifty years working class has been sinking and don knew how to manipulate them, really, just like hitler did
He's got it right. I'm not surprised
“He thinks it’s just another corporate acquisition” they all do.
exactly
if you think trump is bad, get ready for president tucker.
Haha.
Nope.
"maga delenda est" - Quote of the YEAR
A model parent against the usual bullying miscreants, who overcame them, in part, not permanently.
I wish we could ask Tom why so many in service, in the military and policing, back Trump, the aspiring authoritarian.
Because we need an adult to run this asylum.
@@fibhufkyNahhhh. A change agent perhaps. Trump is an adult? Naaahhhh.
@@pcopeland15 He was when he dealt with Soleimani. Unlike the current WH resident.
@@fibhufky At best, Trump's arrested development puts him at about 15 years old. Clear from his juvenile video.
The woke and corrupt 'top brass' in the military and the police usually support Biden/Harris type politicians. The rank-and-file 'grunts' and street cops almost all support Donald Trump.
What do you think our founders would have thought of Harris being made a presidential candidate without a primary without one vote. Would they think this is democracy? Elaine
Read the history of presidential elections.
The voters didn’t vote for a presidential candidate, they voted for an electoral college voter. The electoral college then chose the president.
I think they would be more concerned that she was a black woman tbh. Not even all white men could vote back then. Bro didn’t even free the slaves.
It’s safe to say that everyone in politics would be Washington’s nightmare
I disagree respectfully. From what I know of Washington as a historical figure. I think He would take the measure of a man and his motivation for seeking office, when it comes to modern politics
GEORGE WASHINGTON LOVES PRESIDENT TRUMP
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Washington would weep and gnash his false teeth knowing that a criminal became president.
Both candidates are a total disaster, unfortunately. American democracy hasn't withstood the test of social media.
Limbaugh precedes social media.
@buzoff4642 There used to be a diversity of opinions. Limbaugh was just one of the voices. It's not different from the times of George Washington. Today, people live in online echo chambers that breed intolerance and cancel culture because of anonymity and how easy it is to remove someone from the list of "friends."
@@fibhufky Given they're required to be nomadic for employment, yes, they're online transient social.
The long haulers at work, drive an hour away in opposite directions. No lunching together anymore either.
I don't know about where you live, but the last neighborhood barbecue I remember was in the 1990s.
@@buzoff4642 Same thing here. We no longer know our neighbors. Used to be a family neighborhood. Not a single child on our street now. Young families with children were priced out.
I don't think we can BOTHSIDES this one. Nice try.
Is this an example of objective and neutral journalism or is this an example of Orwellian propaganda in favor of the Democratic Party?
I wonder how objective journalism can remain when faced with someone like Hitler or a populist/trash figure resembling him.
Si notre quotidien était aussi amusant que de regarder cette vidéo, je ne me lasserais jamais des relations💝
My idea of a romantic getaway now involves booking a hotel room with blackout curtains and a king-sized bed. Ah, the luxury of uninterrupted sleep💞
This isn't facebook.