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Tom Nichols and the Baby Busters - Anthony '58 - 08-19-2021
Tom Nichols (born December 7, 1960) was just discussing his new book Our Own Worst Enemy on MSNBC, hitting some of the sharpest Baby Buster talking points, unsparingly critiquing the "Rust Belt angst" of the second half of the '70s and the first half of the '80s, referencing everything from Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. to Billy Joel's Allentown to Simon & Garfunkel's My Little Town.
(It should be pointed out that the "bubblegum" groups whose music Baby Busters listened to, chief among them the aptly-named Ohio Express, hailed from that region).
Nichols, a native of Chicopee, Massachusetts - about as close to the Rust Belt as Calabria is to Sicily - was a "Never Trumper" in 2016, and then left the Republican Party altogether two years later. Yet he has no love for the Democrats, who he characterized as "torn between totalitarian instincts on one side and complete political malpractice on the other."
Maybe he will find the American Solidarity Party to his liking - as another Baby Buster I can name has?
