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    1. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      Simply put, you have to have a cushion of money to be a jackass and *stay* a jackass on Miller's scale. I couldn't be a full-time campus idiot - I wasn't even a part time one - because I was at what was then a working class school, and I was working two jobs. That changes you. /5

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    2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      You not only have to worry about how you'll feed yourself, but you're also spending a lot of time off campus and talking to normal people for whom politics isn't some sort of leisure-time intramural activity. It's the real world, where you'd also like to have friends. /6

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    3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      More than that, your social life is about more than bullshitting about politics with other privileged kids. (I have no idea whether Miller was dating, but that's another wrinkle: trollery was not, uh, a recipe for social success. You had to have other social skills. ) /7

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    4. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      And then, you grow up. Education, if it had an impact on you, makes you understand that the world is complicated. You realize that your anger at the hypocrisy of smug liberals is legit, sure, but that the world isn't the Model UN debate team. /8

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    5. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      But again, all of the permanently juvenile behavior - and this is the most unserious, juvenile White House in history - is enabled by money. Reading the Coppins piece, I keep thinking that Miller, who is clearly smart, could have been changed by a girlfriend and a real job. /9

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    6. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      Maybe that's unfair, since I don't know Miller, and I can only extrapolate from what I see on TV and in the Coppins piece. But every time I see him, I think of him as being about 19, and as the guy in seminar who makes you roll your eyes whenever his hand goes up. /10

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    7. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      There's more to this, and I'm still kind of noodling it out, but this entire administration seems full of well-off but socially maladjusted people, from the President on down, who keep playing out their anger at some sort of 7th grade gym class humiliation. /11

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    8. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      And it's nagged me, because I can remember being young, insecure, angry at a liberal culture that was alien to me, and responding with the kind of trolly jerkishness you see in Miller. I remember a lot of us that way. *When we were teenagers.* /12

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    9. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      And yes, some of it I didn't outgrow. I'm still an arrogant jerk who deals in moral absolutes more often than I should. But I don't live my life to make other people angry. I never had that luxury - and also, because it's not normal to wallow in hostility every day. /13

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    10. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 2 Jun 2018

      I think I understand guys like Bannon and Miller, because I went through a time where I felt as they did. What I don't understand is how they've stayed on that path. Maybe it's money. Maybe an absence of religion. I don't know. But seeing now them makes me glad I didn't. /14x

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2018
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      Good thoughts here. But in addition to money there is infrastructure. There is now a whole well-funded infrastructure to take campus conservatives from troll to Fox News to GOP. It's now a career arc.

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        2. Julie Hotard, PhD, psychologist, disinfo expert‏ @upine 3 Jun 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @RadioFreeTom

          Yes. There's a huge Trump supporting Right Wing propaganda network that includes the well funded infrastructure promoting ppl w RW ideas. Ppl like Jordan Peterson benefit greatly fr this About Jordan Peterson, Logic and the Marketing of Right Wing Ideashttps://medium.com/@upine/a-few-words-about-jordan-peterson-logic-and-marketing-9b5223c10183 …

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        3. Julie Hotard, PhD, psychologist, disinfo expert‏ @upine 3 Jun 2018
          Replying to @upine @HeerJeet @RadioFreeTom

          As long as ppl tow the orthodox Trump supporting line, they are taken care of. See NYT column by Krugman about this. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/opinion/twilight-of-the-apparatchiks.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fpaul-krugman&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection …

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