Published February 25, 2025
President Trump normally has an uncanny instinct for where his voters stand on any given issue — but his apparent tilt toward Russia in its war against Ukraine is one instance where his Spidey sense is off.
That means he is taking a serious political risk in his attempt to bring the war to a quick conclusion: If he doesn’t respect his voters’ general pro-Ukraine, anti-Russia leanings, he could divide his coalition and harm his position at home.
Two recent surveys confirm that Trump is right that his voters think the United States is sending too much aid to Ukraine.
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Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, studies and provides commentary on American politics. His work focuses on how America’s political order is being upended by populist challenges, from the left and the right. He also studies populism’s impact in other democracies in the developed world.
