Welcome to the next episode of the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Isger,

and I'm joined as always with Jonah Goldberg, Steve Hayes, and David French.

First off, thank you all so much for your comments. We know there were some audio issues last week.

We think we've got them resolved this week. But of course, let us know if we're wrong.

Twitter, email, anyway. Today, we're jumping into the Democratic debate last night,

but really focusing on the foreign policy conversation that opened the debate.

Those first 30 minutes, and what it says about where foreign policy is within the two parties.

Then what is happening with Iran's protests moving forward? What did the president's tweet mean?

And where do we think America's role in those protests is? And Peachments starts next week,

Tuesday is the big day. What's a win look like? And lastly, I'll do a quick fact check

on last week. So with that, let's dive right in.

Jonah, last night with the Democratic debates, it's their last chance headed into Iowa. We're

less than three weeks out. Most people have said that the debates were at this point just a

missed opportunity kind of across the board. But with electability as in every single poll,

the most important thing that Democratic voters are looking at. Is anyone making that case better

than others? How are they all looking heading in to February 3rd?

I think Biden kind of won that by default. He was boring,

but boring within normal parameters. Everyone was kind of impressive how boring everybody was.

It's legitimately so it seemed. It's a strategic choice.

And it's weird. The smaller field really made it feel like, I mean, I think I tweeted that

this felt like a political reenactment of the movie, Cocoon, with Buttigieg and the Steve

Gutenberg role because they really did feel old. And when I passed the Will for Brimley line,

...