Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) claimed Tuesday that the Democratic Party needs to guide the United States through its “angry teenage years,” comparing the country to a teenager who needs support so that their brain might “fully form.”
The senator made her comments on The View, during which she acknowledged that President Donald Trump has “Democrats on their heels,” adding that this is no secret. When asked by The View co-host Sunny Hostin if the Republican Party has “thrown out the rule book,” Slotkin claimed that she does not think voters feel as if the Trump administration’s work on the government is “normal.”
“I think there’s a feeling in the country, and I often say this, we’re about to turn 250-years-old, right?” Slotkin stated. “We’re still pretty young for a country. These are, like, our angry teenage years, right? We are going through this push and pull where we’re happy, we’re sad, we want this, we want that, and what do you do when you have a teenager who’s threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form and you can come back.”
The View co-host Joy Behar then interjected, asking if the senator was “talking about Trump,” to which Slotkin responded that she was talking about the “pendulum swinging” occurring with the country’s leadership.
In regards to what Democrats need to do going forward, Slotkin suggested that Democrats need to be “ruthless” in what the party prioritizes, statingthat it also needs to recognize how voters want change from “the status quo.” For herself, she said her priority is “the economy,” citing how many voters want economic stability.
This prompted Behar to suggest that former President Bill Clinton was right in stating “it’s the economy, stupid.” The phrase is actually associated with Clinton’s advisor, Democratic strategist James Carville.
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Amid Democrats seeking a new path forward in the midst of Trump’s first 100 days, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) has suggested the party focus on economic policies that make life more “affordable.” He has also contended that the party could point out economic policies from the Trump administration that “aren’t working.”
Khanna has also rebuked some Democrats over their performance at Trump’s joint-session address to Congress last week, suggesting it did not give the party “a good look” to the public. He also deemed these outbursts as a distraction from the party “getting out our economic message.”
