Ben Rhodes

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12,021 appearances 36 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 3d ago

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Pod Save the World · Xi’s Just Not That Into You · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

And to just plop down some fascist arch in the middle of it kind of ruins the whole vibe for me. matched

I should also say... matched

Putting coup concerns aside, which we probably shouldn't entirely, there's a kind of militarization of Washington. matched

I mean, I've been in cities where the capital of a country is like a very militarized place and you see troops in the streets and kind of shows the military force. matched

Like DC is creeping. matched

I mean, the National Guard out in the streets and now we've got ammo dumps in the arch and we've got... matched

some giant bunker underneath the ballroom that's being built. matched

And it, we're starting to feel like a little, you know, I don't want to impugn any region of the world, but like one of those countries that has like a military militarized capital. matched

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you know, it's a little disconcerting. matched

good example. matched

No, I'm a tear down the arch guy. matched

Like the other ballroom will have to manage in some probably other way, but this one should not stand the light of day. matched

Okay, I'm very pleased to be joined today by Maher Batar, who is the executive director of National Security Action, a progressive foreign policy advocacy organization that I co-founded. matched

I'm still on the board, no longer chair of that board. matched

Maher's also played many roles over the years in the Obama administration, in the Biden administration, a stint in between as the counterpart to Kash Patel on the House Intelligence Committee. matched

Maher was on the Democratic side, in case you're wondering. matched

So that was an experience. matched

But Maher, we're not here to talk about that. matched

We're here to talk about some interesting polling that National Security Action did ahead of the midterms that we wanted to lift up. matched

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