Former House Judiciary Committee general counsel Julian Epstein said Thursday on Fox News Live that Democratic politicians are unpopular because they continue to go down the rabbit hole of the “welfare state and identity politics.”
Epstein said: “The numbers are bad. Nationally, the overall approval numbers for the midterm elections are not very good. The overall approval numbers for Democrats in Congress and the party itself are not very good. And that's because, Kevin, we've been talking about this a lot. Democrats keep going down the same rabbit hole. They think the welfare state and identity politics are the answer to everything. And that's not where voters are. And until they break out of that, their fundraising numbers and numbers approvals will continue to be much lower than they should be.”
He added: “70% of American voters are moderate or conservative. Progressives probably represent somewhere between 10 and 20% of the electorate. However, these are the people who have sort of taken over the Democratic Party. And so when I say the welfare state and identity politics are the answer to everything, that's the progressive liturgy. That's the progressive faith. Democrats have a real opportunity. If the centrists could just step up health care, for example, there, where many The welfare state approach embodied in Obamacare is not working in terms of controlling costs and back to the regulatory state. And it is not meeting voters where they are.”
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