The Ukraine War has produced an extraordinary set of poll numbers from the American people, which seems to reflect a gigantic change of mind. They have gone from not caring about Ukraine to suddenly caring a lot. At a basic level, this response reflects understandable revulsion to the horrors of war and anger at the man, Vladimir Putin, who brought it on. The public, seeing a wrong put before their face, has reacted viscerally to it. It wants to do something about it.
The ability of popular…