climate of opinion

The alliance said making it seem like the three researchers personally were responsible for unpopular measures could “easily contribute to a climate of opinion that has elsewhere already led to scientists being subjected to or threatened with physical or psychological violence.”

Establishment Republicans and never-Trumpers "totally underestimate President Trump," but his ability to change the "climate of opinion" will leave a lasting impact on the party long after he leaves office, Steve Hilton said Sunday.

"Real power in politics is not just the office you hold and the policies you introduce, all of that is fleeting and temporary. Real power is when you change the way people think, you change the climate of opinion, you win the battle of ideas."

He reshaped the climate of opinion, there’s no doubt about it.

“He had labored to create a psychological climate of opinion conducive to public confidence,” Romasco wrote of Hoover.