Ben Rhodes

And so it lets him escape some of the accountability that he should be facing for what's happening.

There's a couple kind of Democrats here that the people that are supportive.

I said this in our last episode, but there's an overlapping Venn diagram between who takes a lot of APEC money, you know.

But if you're going to be supportive, even if you hate the Iranian regime, to your point, Tommy, like the Donald Trump and Pete, that you would trust them with anything.

Um, is, is beyond the pale, but there's another kind of democratic response that I think we need to name, which is people who are like nervous.

Like, what if this goes okay?

Like, I don't want to go, I don't want to be too, Oh, he killed the Supreme leader.

I don't want to look, you know, like, look.

It's like a Gulf War I hangover from 1991.

It's crazy.

And here's the thing.

We should just be anti-war.

Full stop.

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.