Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) claimed on Tuesday that the re-election of President Donald Trump was evidence that the United States was effectively going through its “angry teenage years” and argued that it was up to Democrats to get the people through that period alive.
Slotkin joined the hosts of ABC News’ “The View” to discuss the state of American politics after she’d delivered the rebuttal to President Trump’s address one week prior, and she suggested that the political “pendulum” swinging back to Trump was comparable to dealing with teens whose brains had not yet “fully formed.”
“I think there’s a feeling in the country — and I often say this — we’re about to turn 250 years old. right, we’re still pretty young for a country,” Slotkin said. “These are our — 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 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 to — kind of — what our country —” she continued.
“Are you talking about Trump?” cohost Joy Behar interrupted, prompting laughter from the audience.
Slotkin said no, she was not referencing Trump directly but rather the American people who had elected him.
“No, I’m talking about our country, we’re pendulum swinging. We’re pendulum swinging,” she said. “And so for me, there’s a — I don’t think that there’s a single American who feels like this is normal.”
Slotkin took a different tone over the weekend when she told NBC “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker that Democrats were struggling to get a foothold, noting that President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress had them essentially “on their heels” since the November election.
