Let’s start with some polling:
Americans do not want to be in a war with Iran. Americans don’t want to be in a war, period. Hegseth and Trump have approached this war like they did the alternative Super Bowl half time show: light up the stage with some pyrotechnics, talk about how strong and non-woke America has become, and then pull the curtain.
The only problem: this is a war where we don’t exclusively get to decide the outcome. It turns out Iran has a lot to say about how this goes. As we speak, the war is spilling out into the region, straining alliances and threatening to become a wildfire that inept actors like Trump and “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth cannot possibly contain.
Meanwhile, Rick Wilson and Andrew Wilson began their weekly episode of Behind the Numbers with some breaking news at home: the February jobs report was worse than expected. Much worse. Much much worse.
So how do Americans feel about an unnecessary war that’s costing us, by some measures, over a billion dollars a day, and a failing jobs report?
I’ll let you guess.
But just how much do we hate Trump’s policies? And what does this mean for the midterms? Check out this week’s Behind the Numbers to find out!
