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The wall is very unpopular among the public, and only Trump’s most devoted followers view it as the answer to illegal immigration (or drug smuggling).
America has made too many policy mistakes, US forces are too closely associated with an unpopular and incompetent occupation, and, until recently, their tactics have been too thuggish to permit talk of a permanent presence.
Clearly, the reforms proposed and already partly enacted by the government are unpopular, and there is little doubt that, a year after their re-election, the coalition of the Social Democrats and the Greens would not stand much of a chance at the polls.
Leadership needs time to take and implement unpopular decisions as well as popular ones.
As a result, we are in a difficult period, because realizing the hopes expressed by Obama will require increased American pressure on Israel, a stance that is unpopular at home.
The hugely unpopular Shah they installed was swept away in the Islamic revolution in 1979.
As Kennan explained, when America goes to war over something less than a vital interest, the adversary – for whom vital interests are at stake – will fight long after the war has become too unpopular at home to sustain.
Some anticipate that the Republicans, who feel entitled to govern after five years of unpopular Socialist rule, will come out on top.
But Renzi failed to change much, soon became unpopular, and resigned after losing a referendum last December, leaving anti-euro populists well placed to win the next election.
Street protest, if it can sustain itself for more than that crucial first week, has an effect that is both tactical and emotional; mass protest during the French Revolution made it clear to the courtiers that this rebellion would be too profound to quell in the usual manner; street protests in the American colonies, in the face of arrest or worse, made the colonies ungovernable even before George III waged a costly, unpopular war.
Not only is Iran’s policy of supplying weapons and fighters to keep Assad in power unpopular at home; the country’s leaders also recognize that fighting the Islamic State in Iraq is a half-measure at best, as long as the group controls vast swaths of Syrian territory.
They bridle at a government that must do unpopular things and that also looks narrow and mean-spirited.
Even in Washington, there is not much to be said for being partisan, unpopular, and wrong.
For a start, the French parliament must be given a greater role and government ministers must drop their habit of blaming Brussels whenever they want to introduce unpopular economic or social reforms.
Britain’s Labour government is just about as unpopular as it is possible to be.
Russia's oligarchs are undoubtedly unpopular, and Khodorovsky's arrest was evidently aimed at boosting Putin's prospects in the looming parliamentary and presidential elections.
There is also the troubling prospect that such a showy initiative would, by creating the impression that the EU is taking action, enable the EU and its members to avoid the long-term commitment and politically unpopular measures that an effective crisis response would demand.
But, given the uncertainty implied by Bhumibol’s death, and the prospect of an unpopular crown prince eventually reigning, stability seems unlikely any time soon.
With the passage of time, enlargement has become more unpopular, not less: at last count, only 20% of Germans are keen on the idea, and 68% are unenthusiastic.
In Britain, by contrast, we are now seeing a steep intensification of political controversy, not about enlargement (even though it is unpopular), but about the question of membership of the single currency.
At a glance, Abe’s proposal seems deeply unpopular.
These, too, are unpopular – at least superficially.
Instead, after four years of falling real incomes, the government announced deeply unpopular pension reforms, which included an increase in the retirement age.
But, as peripheral Europe can now attest, this is a cumbersome, painful, and politically unpopular form of economic adjustment.
The net result was a closer Indo-US relationship and a positive view of Bush that overrode unpopular actions such as invading Iraq.
This perceived weakness is a key explanation for why former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (much admired by G-20 and other world leaders) was overthrown by his Labor Party colleagues, and why his successor, Julia Gillard (whose government is much admired for its economic management), remains deeply unpopular.
In these circumstances, an isolated and increasingly unpopular regime might decide to cancel or rig the presidential election when it fell due.
A political party infused with a normal instinct for self-preservation would produce a fresh face to run in a proper presidential election, replacing an unpopular incumbent and his cronies.
On the contrary, Trump and congressional Republicans are moving fast to dismantle the Affordable Care Act – President Barack Obama’s signature health-care policy – claiming that its as-yet-undefined replacement will maintain the popular elements and drop the unpopular ones.
An unpopular war would have made military recruitment difficult in any circumstances.
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