Former Democratic House Judiciary Committee chief counsel Julian Epstein said Thursday on “Fox News Live” that Democratic politicians were unpopular because they kept falling down the rabbit hole of “welfare state and identity politics.”
Epstein said: “The numbers are bad. Nationally, the generic approval numbers for the midterm elections are not good. The overall approval numbers for Democrats in Congress and for the party itself are not good. And that’s because, Kevin, we’ve talked about this a lot. Democrats keep falling down the same rabbit hole. They think the welfare state and identity politics are the answer to everything. And that’s not where the voters are. And until they break away from that, their fundraising numbers and its approval numbers will continue to be far below what they should be.”
He added: “70% of American voters are moderate or conservative. Progressives probably make up 10 to 20% of voters. But these are the people who have sort of hijacked the Democratic Party. And so when I say that the welfare state and identity politics are the answer to everything, that’s the progressive liturgy. That’s the progressive belief. Democrats have a real chance. If centrists could step up health care, for example, where there is a lot of anxiety about affordability, there’s just not enough competition in the system. The welfare state approach that Obamacare embodies is not working in terms of cost control, but Democrats are not doing that again by not meeting voters where they are.
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