Dear Elissa Slotkin: We Aren’t Going Anywhere

I came out as a conservative to friends and family around 2020, right about the time a flamboyant liberal man reduced me to tears in a pizza shop upon learning I had voted for Donald Trump. That season, I swore no one would ever reduce me to tears over my political predilections again, and that I would never be ashamed of the views I professed or the morals I believed in.

Since then, I’ve been unapologetically outspoken, a luxury I’m blessed to enjoy because I’ve made a career of it. Many of my fellow traditionalists aren’t so fortunate. For a young person, being openly GOP comes with consequences.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) made that chillingly clear last week.

The faux-moderate, two-faced, GLP-1-riddled senator told a crowd at the once-hallowed University of Chicago that she hopes planned political prosecutions of Republican leaders will scare young conservatives out of public life.

“I want young people coming out of school to say, Should I go work for the Trump Administration? … Lord that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, so let me avoid participating in that. I want that deterrent message.”

The only thing I’m deterred from is ever touching GLP-1s, since they’ve so obviously destroyed her brain.

First of all, she shouldn’t take the Lord’s name in vain, let alone in such a ludicrous sentence.

Second, trust us, Slotty Potty: you and your woke whited sepulchers have been deterring young conservatives for years. Nobody is rushing to come out as red-blooded in front of the blue brigade, and not merely because you’re all visibly frightening, but because for many young people, doing so is political, cultural, and economic suicide.

In Hollywood, conservatives don’t get cast. In universities, conservatives don’t get included. In sororities, conservatives don’t get bids. In internships, conservatives don’t get asked back. In the workforce, conservatives don’t get promoted.

I’m not complaining; it’s just a fact. A Cato Institute/YouGov survey found that 77% of Republicans say they hold political views they are afraid to share, and that 51% of Republicans under 30 fear their views could harm their career prospects, compared with 28% of Republicans aged 55 to 64. For young people, it’s worse. A national Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) survey of 45,000 students found that 42% of conservative students felt they couldn’t express their opinions freely, compared with 13% of liberals. And a Harvard Institute of Politics poll found that only 35% of young Republicans feel comfortable sharing their political views with college professors, compared with 54% of young Democrats.

We truly are the silent majority.

You can’t come out to friends about your political persuasion. You can’t tell employers who you voted for. You can’t even like a conservative-leaning post on Instagram, for fear that one stray double-tap, one little pink notification, will out you to some liberal colleague and blow your cover.

And now, apparently, you can’t work for the Trump administration or anywhere near it without painting a big red bullseye on your back.

Congratulations, young GOP: you’ve been automatically deemed worthy of political persecution simply for disagreeing with Democrats, rather than the usual pretentious indignation. We love it here.

Third, we already knew the Leftist lamias were already hunting adults. Consider the Trump supporter who bought a MAGA hat between 2021 and 2025, unknowingly landing on a spreadsheet that lived with Biden’s special counsel. Consider the bank accounts of MAGA, pro-life, and conservative groups. Consider the GOP lawmakers swept up in Arctic Frost, in which Jack Smith’s team collected phone data from at least 10 Republican senators and multiple House Republicans, including then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Consider any litany of members of Trump’s inner or outer circles.

But to specifically daunt young GOPers? That’s a new low, even for these lowlifes.

“Hey, kid, you can work in conservative politics, but just know your life will be a living hell.” Cute.

As a loud-and-proud, openly GOP woman who flaunts her opinions all over the interwebs, I’ve found it both reassuring and maddening to hear from so many young people who are glad I’m speaking out. Every week, my inbox fills with messages from students and early-career professionals who agree with me but cannot say so themselves. They thank me for “saying the quiet part aloud,” because at the moment they can’t quite step out of the conservative closet, and they’re relieved someone is finally voicing what they think.

And this doesn’t make them apathetic shrinking violets. It makes them smart; they’re self-preserving, and they’ll come out when the time is right and vote silently in the meantime.

But thankfully, there’s a second group, too: those inspired by my loud mouth who want to know where to learn more about politics and how to get involved despite the constant cloud of coercive commie control and the ever-shrinking, still-menacing shadow of Slotty Potty.

Because newsflash: when you tell kids they can’t do something, it often makes them want to do it more.

Sure, the Left has spent years silencing, harassing, and intimidating conservatives in every sphere and space since the Bork-ing of 1987, and sure, now it’s preemptively planning prosecutions of wide-eyed, bushy-tailed GOPers. But it won’t work.

The stubborn among us, the fighters, the opinionated political baddies who simply never shut the heck up, will keep coming out of the GOP closet and fighting this tyranny.

Until then, the President of the United States should take my boss’s advice and preemptively pardon these tradition-loving, tax-hating, America-appreciating, sound-minded, politically oriented kiddos from the predations of Slotty Potty and her power-craving kin.

Consider it a coming-out gift.