But predictably whenever Obama seeks federal action — and particularly on environmental issues — the backlash came fierce and fast.
Gartner, a consultancy, has forecast that security and privacy concerns will replace job losses as the top "backlash issue".
Some executives said the Infosys results could be the turning point for the industry's preoccupation with the backlash issue.
"No longer are customers prefacing outsourcing questions with what they should do to deflect the backlash issue," said Partha Iyengar, research director for Gartner in Mumbai.
But in the last two months, analysts say the backlash issue seems to be fading in importance to the American public and to United States businesses.
"The backlash issue made outsourcing so mainstream that even my barber was speaking knowledgeably about outsourcing," said iGate's chief executive, Phaneesh Murthy, who is based in Fremont, Calif.
The cable also cites "veteran journalist" Zafar Agha, who alleges that prominent Muslim leaders were, for the most part, not staging demonstrations on the Lebanon issue, fearing a backlash.
Many commentators have invoked the "backlash" issue to express concern – or to shed crocodile tears – over the future of same-sex marriage if the court were to rule broadly in its favor.
Rosenstein is an advisor, although when I tried to raise the issue of the backlash that has hit Facebook on multiple fronts, I got a flat response.
House Republicans, mindful of how their handling of budget issues provoked a backlash in 1995, have been less aggressive in overtly defying the administration than have Republicans in the Senate, who will remain in the minority yet have more power to obstruct under Senate rules.
