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

Now, one way to interpret that is a kind of America first thing, which is that, you know what, we're done. matched

Like, we're exhausted with all this. matched

Let's just kind of pull up the drawbridge and come home. matched

And there's some of that that I think is true, like, particularly as it relates to wars. matched

At the same time, though, you know, you find support for alliances in this poll. matched

You find support for NATO in this poll. matched

I mean, what do you... If you take the two, and they're not really straw men, they're kind of the two recent approaches, right? matched

The Trump... matched

well, he says it's America first, but then he launches wars and stuff. matched

So, but if you take the America first argument, say Tucker Carlson argument, you know, as one poll of opinion, and then you take kind of, you know, I don't know, to be, I think kind of the Biden, you know, the American exceptionalism, and we have to do all these things because we're America. matched

What's the third way that it starts to appear in this public opinion? matched

Where do you think people are on that question? matched

I guess to wrap this up a bit, like, okay, so the message, I take it that if you, well, two questions, like one on the midterms and then one on the presidential campaign. matched

So like, if you were advising Abdul Aseed, you know, in the next few weeks, and maybe Abdul's listening to this while he works out or something, what do you think the, what are the messages, you know, you would advise him or another midterm Senate candidate to be hitting? matched

And so the last thing I want to ask is like we we've identified a lot of opportunity for Democrats here. matched

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You know. matched

running against the tariffs, running against the war and the cost of it, you know, running against kind of this unaccountable military assistance to other countries. matched

What do you think are going to be challenges? matched

You know, like, what did you see in here that's like, oh, you know, as Democrats begin to prepare presidential primary campaigns, matched

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