David Wallace-Wells

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678 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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The Opinions · ‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

And that allows us a little bit more leverage at the bargaining table than we thought we had even a couple of months ago when we thought we had our backs up against the wall.

Well, you know, that's another thing.

I don't think that it has penetrated the public political consciousness in nearly the way we might have expected.

You know, Americans will say they oppose the war.

They want it to be over.

They're unhappy about its effect on the economy and on gas prices.

But it is not a topic, a conversation on the news.

It's not the leading item in newspapers like ours.

It is not dominating social media.

And you see a sort of growing awareness that this is the kind of bad imperial behavior that the U.S.

engages in without any real outrage about it.

And I think that alone is a kind of depressing, distressing development that the public could come to hold those two thoughts in their head at once.

That is to say, we understand that this is like irresponsible imperial behavior by a

we're not even paying all that close attention to it and just letting it slide by.

But I do think that that's like the best way of describing the public response.

And that means that in addition to there not being so much economic pressure on the U.S.

to really resolve this, there's not much political pressure either, which again, if you had told me that in February, I would have been shocked.

And that was the main public response from skeptical right-wingers in the immediate aftermath of the deal was like, this is not what we were hoping for.

One additional layer I would add is that to the extent that the world has been protected from some of these more catastrophic economic impacts that we were expecting earlier in the war,

it's actually been sort of publicly credited to China for not importing oil, for drawing down their own strategic oil reserves, and therefore sort of softening the impact on the global oil market.

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