Democrats Risk Misreading Midterm Landslide, Trubowitz Says
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[0:00] Republican lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill this week may struggle to
[0:03] ram through the package before the new Congress is seated in January.
[0:07] Well, with us now, let's leave in January, chief executive of the Chicago
[0:10] Council on Global Affairs and Peter Troop of it's professor of international
[0:15] relations at the London School of Economics.
[0:17] So thank you both for joining us. Let's start with you.
[0:20] I mean, there is in my mind a concern that actually a lot of people believe
[0:24] that now that the Democrats won so big Trump will be curtailed.
[0:28] There's another school of thought that actually says the president will be
[0:31] unhinged, that through executive orders, he'll be much more aggressive.
[0:34] You know, first of all, we don't know because this is such an unpredictable
[0:37] president. But I think that I'm less I was on the
[0:40] unhinged side of that story until these elections.
[0:44] I actually think now he's going to be calculating.
[0:47] I think legacy will matter a huge amount.
[0:49] I think he's going to want to get some sort of resolution, certainly to the war
[0:53] with Iran, but actually also to the war in Ukraine.
[0:56] I don't think he's going to be successful in the latter.
[0:58] I think there's some hope, not of a good outcome, but of some more stability when
[1:03] it comes to Iran. Um, but I think he's going to want to
[1:06] deliver some wins. Um, and he's also, as we know, facing
[1:10] divisions in his own party. He's facing divisions.
[1:13] Um, the Democratic Party, my real concern is actually less about Donald
[1:18] Trump, and it's more about