public opinion

Optimism that public opinion would sway their government’s leaders on matters of war and peace had been steadily crushed while carnage in Southeast Asia continued.

Nonetheless, the public opinion polls would appear to suggest that the conventional wisdom about Donald Trump’s declining popularity is, at this early point in his reign, correct.

For too long, many Democrats have treated public opinion as something they must respond to rather than shape.

China also has a higher threshold for pain as an authoritarian regime, as it is far less worried about short-term public opinion.

Speaking to Salon, he said Trump administration cuts could be a ploy to turn public opinion against the agency and soften the blow of an eventual raid on its coffers.