Shellenberger: Trump's Popular Policies Zoom Past Dems’ Fringe Fixations

"These are popular things. These are very moderate, mainstream ideas. There's nothing fringe here. And I think the Democrats have got themselves in a really tricky position because they ended up with an they've got a base that's radicalized around things that are deeply unpopular around trans, DEI, climate apocalypse.
And here you've got an administration that's doing things that are broadly popular and that we're even being called for by people like Bernie Sanders and AOC in terms of making very reasonable audits of government agencies that are obviously overspending and spending on wasteful things."