Tom Nichols is one of the so-called 'conservatives' who has a raging case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it shows.
He claims he's The Expert on specific issues, and perhaps he was at one time. But President Trump has so irretrievably broken Nichols' brain that all his expertise has gone bye-bye.
Which is why he posted this in the Atlantic without realizing what a self-own it actually was:
Here's what Tom writes, in his piece titled 'Tinker Tailor Soldier MAGA' (that'll be important in a moment):
That’s part of the job, and federal employees submit to it in order to keep America safe. What isn’t part of the job is a McCarthyist political-loyalty requirement, enforced with polygraphs and internal snooping. But FBI Director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have apparently decided that hunting down politically unreliable members of America’s intelligence and law-enforcement communities is more important than catching enemy spies, terrorists, or bank robbers.
Indeed, to call what Patel and Gabbard are doing “McCarthyism” is to make too grandiose a comparison. Tail Gunner Joe, a thoroughly reprehensible opportunist, claimed that he was rooting out Communists loyal to Moscow who were hidden in the U.S. government. Patel and Gabbard, meanwhile, don’t seem very worried about foreign influences and they’re not looking for enemy agents. They just want to know who’s talking smack behind their back.
Gabbard, according to The Washington Post, has “expressed a desire to gain access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies with the aim of using artificial intelligence tools to ferret out what the administration deems as efforts to undermine its agenda.” In other words, Gabbard is threatening to endanger the careers of loyal intelligence officers by asking an AI if any of them aren’t fully on board with the MAGA cause. She has created a team within her office with the anodyne name of the “Director’s Initiatives Group,” which will collect large amounts of data from across 18 different agencies and run them through AI tools to see whether anyone is engaging in “weaponization” of intelligence. This is a flatly ridiculous, and extremely dangerous, idea.
Now, back to that headline.
It's a play on the title of a 1974 novel written by John le Carre that was adapted into a 2011 film starring Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Except there's one problem:
You would assume wrong.
This is what we voted for.
Tulsi Gabbard nuked the Never Trump crowd's 'Russian collusion' argument from orbit, and they're very angry about that.
Because they could be in big trouble.
Because ORANGE MAN BAD.
That's Tom's driving motive these days.
BUT TRUMP!
He's the king of worst takes.
He is not.
Going on 14 hours, so ... he probably won't.
This is going poorly for The Expert, isn't it?
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