Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee, and he has vowed revenge on his political enemies. His voters want revenge as well—on their fellow citizens.
Last night’s Iowa caucus results confirm that Donald Trump is almost certainly headed for the GOP presidential nomination. So much for the hopes of establishment Republicans (the handful who remain, anyway) and other conservatives that voters would refuse to join Trump’s personal crusade for vengeance against the American system of government.
Such hopes were always the thinnest of reeds: The Republican base actively embraces Trump’s grievances; it emulates his pettiness; it supports his childlike inability to accept responsibility. These voters are not sighing in resignation and voting for the lesser of two or three or four evils. They are getting what they want—because they, too, are set on revenge.
These voters are not settling a political score. Rather, they want to get even with other Americans, their own neighbors, for a simmering (and likely unexpected) humiliation that many of them seem to have felt ever since swearing loyalty to Trump.
A lot of people, especially in the media, have a hard time accepting this simple truth…— Tom Nichols
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Read a review in my new Science Magazine.
A family history of the Universe
Musings on natural phenomena merge with tales from a science journalist’s personal life
The voice of Nell Greenfieldboyce may well already be in your head. The longtime National Public Radio (NPR) science reporter steadily brings listeners news from deep inside the cell, the ocean, space, and more. In Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life, her essays elucidate tornadoes, meteors, black holes, and fleas, among other phenomena of our shared world. She also probes deeply into her own past and psyche, interweaving facts with personal history. In print as in radio, her voice is wry, charming, informative, and, indeed, sometimes strange. (The title references Walt Whitman’s poem “Year of Meteors.”)
The prompting to bring often lofty science findings down to the private realm is instigated when Greenfieldboyce becomes a parent. “I suddenly had a new audience. A much smaller audience—only two, instead of millions,” she writes, “but with higher emotional stakes.”...
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