When Anti-War Candidates Become War-Monger Presidents
From The Intercept Briefing by The Intercept
April 17, 2026 · 45 min · Season 3 · Episode 17
About this episode
The episode discusses the recent Senate vote on military aid to Israel and the anti-war sentiment among Democrats, featuring insights from former Sanders adviser Matt Duss.
Sen. Bernie Sanders forced a vote on Wednesday to block the sales of bombs and bulldozers to Israel. The resolutions failed mostly along party lines with a handful of defections to the Republican side, but a record number of Democrats voted against sending weapons to Israel. “A supermajority of Democrats oppose this war, are generally against America's global military interventions,” former Sanders foreign policy adviser Matt Duss tells The Intercept Briefing. Yet Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined 11 Democrats in voting against the measure to block the sale of 1,000-pound bombs to Israel, and seven Democrats against the sale of bulldozers used in Israel’s military occupations. “We do have a Democratic Party leadership that still is part of this very small — and thankfully dwindling, though not fast enough — hawkish faction that is wedded to this idea of American global military domination,” says Duss. This week on the podcast, Duss speaks to host Akela Lacy about how Democrats should use the overwhelming unpopularity of the war to push an anti-war agenda that brings about real change. “There's a real constituency here for this message,” says…
People in this episode
Host: Akela Lacy
Guest: Matt Duss
Topics covered
- anti-war movement
- military intervention
- Democratic Party politics
- foreign policy
- Israel
- Senate vote
Keywords
- Bernie Sanders
- Matt Duss
- Chuck Schumer
- military aid
- Israel
- Democrats
- foreign policy
- anti-war
- Senate vote
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Organizations: The Intercept, Democratic Party, Republican Party
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