‘What do you do when you have a teenager threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form,’ says Michigan senator
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) suggested Tuesday that Americans elected President Donald Trump because the country is in its “angry teenage years” and voters’ brains have not fully formed.
“I don’t think there’s anyone who feels like what’s going on right now is normal, even if you voted for Trump,” Slotkin said on The View. “We’re about to turn 250 years old, right? We’re still pretty young for a country.”
“These are like our angry teenage years. We are going through this push and pull where we’re happy, we’re sad, we want this, we want that,” Slotkin continued. “And what do you do when you have a teenager threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form.”
The View’s Joy Behar asked if Slotkin was referring to Trump.
“No, I’m talking about our country,” Slotkin replied. “We’re a pendulum swinging.”
Slotkin’s comments came in response to cohost Sunny Hostin asking the senator to address concerns that Democrats are “playing it safe” and “not meeting the moment” to combat Trump and his agenda. A Quinnipiac poll in January showed that only 31 percent of registered voters had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, which has faced criticism for being too passive against Trump.
“I think that we are absolutely in extraordinary times, and it requires an extraordinary response,” Slotkin said.
Slotkin, a first-year senator, was elected in a swing state where Trump won by 1.4 percentage points. She also delivered the Democratic Party’s rebuttal to Trump’s joint address to Congress last week.
“America wants change. But there is a responsible way to make change—and a reckless way—and we can make that change without forgetting who we are as a country and as a democracy,” Slotkin said Wednesday.
This article was originally published at freebeacon.com
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