The New Yorker:

Senator Elissa Slotkin, of Michigan, on how Trump voters who believe that the President has a “grand plan” are going to end up with less money in their pockets.

By David Remnick

Senator Elissa Slotkin is a Democrat, but she comes at her critique of the Trump Administration from a somewhat different angle than equally critical colleagues in the Party, such as Chris Murphy, Cory Booker, and Bernie Sanders. She represents Michigan, a swing state whose voters saw fit, in 2024, to send a Democrat to the Senate and Donald Trump to the White House. She argues that her constituents responded to their shared focus on economic issues—but she is deeply skeptical that Trump’s promise to return jobs to Michigan will yield fruit. Her constituents will see this, she argues, if Democrats adopt some “alpha energy” and force the President to “own” his policies.

Slotkin has been a fierce critic of Trump, blasting him and his team for “ignorance” in their treatment of the Ukrainian leadership, telling Vanity Fair that the President is “cozying up to dictators and kicking our allies in the teeth.” Earlier this year, in the Democratic response to Trump’s hundred-minute-long address to a joint session of Congress, Slotkin urged her listeners not to give up: “Don’t tune out. It’s easy to be exhausted, but America needs you now more than ever. If previous generations had not fought for this democracy, where would we be today?”

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