“I think that the party has made progress since 2016, and I also think that the Biden campaign is listening to progressives,” said Stephen Wertheim, deputy director of research and policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an anti-interventionist think tank. “I don’t want to make too much of a platform,” he added. “It’s really all about what happens in an administration, including who’s appointed to staff that administration.”
“There’s no question that the Overton window [of mainstream discourse] is shifting,” said Stephen Wertheim, a historian and deputy director at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an anti-interventionist think tank. “Many Americans, left and right, now say that the biggest foreign-policy problem is that their own country is waging endless war. … In a recent poll, around three-quarters of Americans favor bringing troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s staggering.”
“Nobody seems to say, we’re going to do this maximum pressure thing but what are the Iranians going to do? What are their options once we do this? On the outside, scholars and commentators have pointed out from the very beginning that, obviously this is going to force Iran into China’s arms because you don’t have to be Iranian to figure out that that’s your best option under the circumstances.”
