Thread by @DataRepublican

🧵 THREAD: Tom Nichols hates you more than you hate him, and here are the receipts.

Thread below. stwo weeks, military commentators across 𝕏 have been dogpiling @RadioFreeTom for his criticism of Hegseth and his insufferable debate style... bemoaning the lack of War College graduates in his feed while banning actual alumni like @CynicalPublius, @infantrydort, and As.

He's not sorry about it.

So I compiled a dossier on him. And it's worse than you think.

I have never encountered a public figure who carries this much contempt for his own country... not its government, not its politicians, but its people. The Americans he spent 25 years teaching at the Naval War College? He thinks they're the greatest threat to democracy.

That's a direct quote.

It raises a serious question: should someone who views American servicemen as a danger to the republic have any influence over how they are sent to war?

I think his material at the Naval War College should be retroactively reviewed. I'm serious.

As always, patience as I pull the thread together. 👇

@RadioFreeTom He wrote a whole book on how "We, the people" is the "greatest threat to democracy in the United States."

Why? Because they don't agree with him on globalism, or China, or immigration.

@RadioFreeTom "Lumpen-bourgeoisie." I think he does like to project a lot.

@RadioFreeTom He supported the Iraq War from behind a desk at the Naval War College. When it became "one of the greatest geopolitical disasters in American history" (his words, 2023), he blamed YOU.

@RadioFreeTom RedState has archived a thread from Nichols which appears to have been deleted (or at least I can't find the original). In it, he makes the case for universal shunning of anyone who ever supports Trump.

@RadioFreeTom He's firmly on the side of exiling any Trump supporter, friends and family, from polite society.

@RadioFreeTom Military veterans supported Trump 61%-37%.

Let me ask a hard question: what does it mean for a Naval War College professor to be involved in the discourse that affects the future of those who he considers his own enemies?

@RadioFreeTom Ok. What is the democratic ill that we are all so guilty of?

It's demanding accountability and results from our elected leaders. Seriously. That's a bad thing according to Tom Nichols.

@RadioFreeTom He accuses Trump voters of being ungrateful and voting to curtail everyone's rights. What rights those are, I don't know.

@RadioFreeTom Nichols, of course, aggressively supported the Iraq war based on Powell's infamous WMD speech.

It's just our fault that we didn't allow politicians to invest enough trillions in Iraq.

Nichols writing an article critiquing Ron DeSantis' actions on border security during the Biden administration.

In the article, he pinky-promised he was a conservative against illegal immigration, but he preferred the Biden state of affairs where immigrants were overwhelming borders because ... he didn't want MAGA to score points.

lol

Tom Nichols wants more participation "by informed voters through institutions that are not constantly and immediately at the mercy of a majority."

In other words, the defender of democracy isn't actually a defender of democracy. He wants more rule through democratic institutions.

The pattern: Nichols begins with concrete examples of civic ignorance (can't find countries on a map, can't name their congressman). But he quickly moves past factual ignorance into something else entirely... the public's failure to reach the correct conclusions. By 2018, "ignorance" has become indistinguishable from "disagreeing with Tom Nichols about Trump."

.@RadioFreeTom built a career teaching the men and women who fight America's wars, while openly despising the communities they come from. He championed the Iraq War from the safety of a seminar room, then blamed the public when it went sideways. He wrote an entire book arguing that ordinary Americans are too stupid to govern themselves, then got mad when they stopped listening to him.

This is a man who mistook proximity to power for wisdom, and when the public stopped deferring to his class, he called it the death of democracy.

The receipts are all his own words. He said them. He published them. He meant them.

Remember that the next time he lectures you about civility.

@RadioFreeTom And if someone figures out what the "decades of international stability" he's talking about, please let me know.

@RadioFreeTom Tom Nichols: you'll hate my book so much, you'll want to write a whole another book on it. It is your anti-"Death of Expertise."

Unelected. Preorders available at .amazon.com/dp/B0GGYQNWHJ