Posted on 08/28/2025 6:24:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Democrat commentator Julian Epstein said on Fox Business Wednesday that its leaders are driving themselves into political ruin by embracing fringe ideas that alienate voters.
With a sinking approval rating after their 2024 losses, Democrats scrambled to rebrand, as some conceded their message sounds more like a lecture than a campaign pitch. Appearing on “The Evening Edit,” Epstein said the party’s collapse stems from its fixation on cultural and ideological battles pushed by academic elites and activist groups.
“The Democratic Party is in the dumps. Every single indicator, whether it’s fundraising, party registration or ID, whether it is all of the public polling that we have on all of the lead issues from the economy to cultural issues, Democrats are cratering,” Epstein said.
Epstein said Democratic elites have prioritized ideological experiments over kitchen-table concerns, leaving everyday Americans feeling abandoned.
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“The reason for that is they continue to pray at the altar of these Pagan idols. Let’s erase gender. Let’s erase borders. Let’s ignore crime and erase the police. Let’s erase our energy dominance. And to most people, Ashley, these things are nuts. But they come from the academic. These ideas come from the academic and the activist left who is not concerned with voters,” Epstein told guest host Ashley Webster.
Epstein warned that activist academics are dragging the party into decline, adding they thrive by casting Americans as “victims of the oppressed” while leaving the Democratic brand “toxic.”
“They’re more concerned with indoctrinating enough people that they are victims, that they are oppressed. And that these activists and academics are liberators of the oppressed. It serves their career interests, but it is devastating for the party. And that is why the party’s brand is toxic,” Epstein said.
Voter registration data says Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between 2020 and 2024 across 30 states and Washington, D.C., while Republicans gained 2.4 million during the same period, according to the New York Times. Several Democrats told The Hill the sharp losses highlight a trend that should serve as a wake-up call for party leaders.
They can’t accomplish this without a receptive audience. It takes two to Tango.
That’s the first I’ve heard someone match that up with the rats’ madness. You’re absolutely right, and failure of the right to join on this issues early on led to the blossoming of the madness
Democrats! Do not listen to these traitors to the truth which is the Democrat Party!
It is time to go “ALL IN” on Democrat values!!!
(But will they listen to my “sage” advice?)
One can hope, LOL.
And such is the role of the broadcast news media and press.
“For decades Republicans were told to stay away from the societal issues, that they would be the death of the party........................”
When the public has been sufficiently indoctrinated, the party is free to do anything they wish.
Absolutely.
Quadruple down democrats.......the world just isn’t smart enough to see how right you are!
Full steam ahead!
Democrats in general aren't concerned with voters, nor are certain factions of the Republican party. You have to wonder why. Personally, I think we saw it writ large in November 2020.
I never liked Julian Epstein from the first time I saw on tv defending Clinton.... but who knew that he would be one in the DRM party that would show some common sense?
“...The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Pretty much everything that the Bible says is wrong, Democrats embrace. And pretty much everything the Bible says is good, the Democrats say is bigoted, exclusionary,, and outdated. They’ve not just gone paganistic, but full Satanic.
“”””I never liked Julian Epstein from the first time I saw on tv defending Clinton.... but who knew that he would be one in the DRM party that would show some common sense?”””
He has seen the light. It is good to see one of them admit it.
Democrats have not just gone paganistic, but full Satanic:
<><>everything that the Bible says is wrong, Democrats embrace.
<><>everything the Bible says is good, Democrats say is bigoted, exclusionary, and outdated.
Terrific deconstruction.
“ For decades Republicans were told to stay away from the societal issues, that they would be the death of the party”
Y whom? RINOs
Trump took the hits and ignored that. He has full support from his base the rest will follow when they think it’s safe.
Not before
“ For decades Republicans were told to stay away from the societal issues, that they would be the death of the party”
Y whom? RINOs
Trump took the hits and ignored that. He has full support from his base the rest will follow when they think it’s safe.
Not before
“Educated” idiots. Smarmy, patronizing, pathetic idiots.
You heard it here first, “Epstein didn’t kill himself.”
Ah so.
The head fake pseudo pivot to the sane lane has begun.
Which Democrat Will Merge Into the 2028 Sane Lane?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4337186/posts
If it happens, they will be destroyed by the radical Left, they will not allow it.
None.
For if they do, they will be mercilessly attacked and scorned, shunned and ostracized......................
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