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International affairs expert Tom Nichols says democracy is under assault. What's causing it? Not media, not special interests, not the political parties. He says the enemy is all of us, joyfully marinating in a culture of narcissism. You are worth it. You deserve it. And don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Today, On Point : Does America have a culture of narcissism? If so, how is that poisoning politics and threatening democracy? Tom Nichols , national security scholar at the U.

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For most of my career, I have been a specialist in national security affairs, a cheerless area of study. And yet nothing was more difficult than writing about democracy in my own country. In the past, I brought — I hope — a scholarly and dispassionate eye to unpleasant subjects. Now, I was anguished. I was no longer writing about notional future wars or the faraway Russians.

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Become a Premium Member and get exclusive features! This content may be removed anytime! So if it seems like I don't engage Trump's enablers on the merits of this or that Trump policy, it's because I can't take Trump's "policies" any more seriously than Trump or his minions do. This is exactly what I did. Yes, some of them really are stupid enough to think Trump is a good man and all that crap, but most of them are only interested in Trump as a vehicle of social disruption. He's not liberal or conservative. Did Thread Reader help you today? Someone will have to bring this up, and actually someone who should know better already has. Tweet Share. Become a Premium Member and get exclusive features! Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed bit. Yes, there are people in government trying to hold everything together. The problem is that you cannot re-run history without Jill Stein or Perot being on the ballot. They were, of course, wrong.

Thomas Michael Nichols [1] born December 7, is an American writer, academic specialist on international affairs , and retired professor at the U. Naval War College.

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