David Wallace-Wells

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

David Wallace-Wells’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

And I think, again, to the extent that we're tallying losses for Donald Trump here, it's not just that he made a worse deal than Obama.

It was also that on some level, the experience of the war

demonstrated not just that iran controlled the hormuz weapon but that china also was quite a powerful player with their oil weapon and both of those are probably pretty um upsetting to someone who wants to assert power on the global stage as nakedly as trump does i think it's sweet that he's boosted china's global image that's awfully nice of him

One big question is whether the soft economic impact that I was describing was a temporary thing that will and the landscape there will change once our oil reserves really do go to zero.

That was some of the pressure that was on Trump a month or two ago when he was first sort of coming to the table and reaching the memorandum of understanding was the idea that, you know, this had been relatively comfortable, you know, relatively speaking, relatively comfortable for a period of time.

But we're about to hit some really hard limits.

And the question is whether that's true and whether if we continue to have the straight closed over the next, say, two or three months, whether we'll start to see a much more punishing economic impact.

If that does come to pass, I think it may drag his approval ratings even lower.

It's true.

Well, I think there are a lot of different actors in this saga, right?

There's Plattner himself, who was, you know, dissembling, you know, misleading the public, misleading his staff.

There were, you know, the people who sort of found him and didn't vet him properly.

There's his campaign staff.

Then there are a lot of enablers in the media.

But I also think that, you know, we shouldn't look away from the fact that he won the primary and the voters actually did vote.

see much of this, not all of it, but see much of this behavior, and nevertheless voted to make him the nominee.

And that's in a particular situation against particular other candidates.

We can't read all that much into it.

But the thing that concerns me about it is that I don't know how much of that is, as David said, extending grace to someone who shares your ideology, and how much of it is voters...

liking the roughness of his presentation.

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