Ben Rhodes

Unless there's an imminent threat that absolutely compels this nation to take military action, the Democratic Party should be morally, legally, ethically, priority-wise, because we want to spend money at home instead of abroad.

The easiest political message in the world to deliver.

That is not a hard message to deliver.

We are spending more money on munitions in the

Persian Gulf right now than on the ACA subsidies that were cut.

You don't need to be a Dan Pfeiffer to decipher this one.

Shout out, Dan.

Shout out, Dan.

Shout out, Polar Coaster.

Yeah, the point being is that even if this is the best case scenario, which I don't think it's going to be for all the reasons you said, I would still be against it.

Because as a matter of principle, and frankly, to be in line with public opinion, particularly the public opinion of our own people in the

Like we need to be against this.

And so I just really hope we start to see like more of a pulse from the Democrats and not just like we want to have this vote on this, which props to Ro Khanna.

It's not against him, but the concern that you have one vote that fails and then you want to pivot.

To your economic messaging, you know, well, your economic messaging is this.

It's like, let's not keep fighting dumb wars so we can spend money on the things that people actually care about.

I just would like to see Democrats like want to have this debate and not sometimes like unhappy that someone's asking the question about it.

And that's the high watermark.

Yeah, that's the high watermark.

Yeah.