Elissa Slotkin

Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan recently appeared at the University of Chicago for the live taping of a liberal podcast.

At one point in the conversation, she described her preferred strategy of going after not only President Trump, but the people in his inner circle who ‘enabled’ him.

She then says that she wants young people coming out of college to be too afraid to work with his administration for fear of ‘a ton of problems.’

These are the people who are calling you a fascist.

I want to look at these signature cases, and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him.

I want young people coming out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun, I might get an opportunity.

I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.

ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.@ElissaSlotkin pic.twitter.com/p7NBJpDcQW

— The Chicago Thinker (@ThinkerChicago) October 17, 2026

Slotkin also called for a “radical reform and ethics package” to rebuild public trust in elected officials and judges. Her proposals included “ban[ning] corporate PACs,” establishing term and age limits for Supreme Court justices, and restricting stock trading by members of Congress and their spouses. She said Democrats should pursue investigations into alleged government misconduct and introduce safeguards against future abuses of power.

“We have to Trump-proof the government going forward, so that no president of any party can ever abuse the system the way he did,” Slotkin said.

Slotkin argued that the divide between moderate and progressive Democrats mattered less than whether lawmakers were willing to use their political power to challenge the Trump administration. “I don’t think the divide is moderate versus progressive,” she said, “I think it is fight versus flight.”

Slotkin pointed to her work with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Democrat whose primary campaign she did not endorse but whom she campaigned with after he won the nomination. She said the two disagreed on some issues, particularly foreign policy, but shared priorities on democracy and economic security. “We may come from different so-called wings of the party,” Slotkin said, “but we can work together as a team on the things that we both believe in.”

Democrats are the fascists that they keep warning others about.

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