Elissa Slotkin, the former CIA analyst turned battleground senator, will on Thursday start road-testing what she calls a “war plan” to “contain and defeat Donald Trump.”
In the first of a series of speeches about the Democratic Party’s path out of the wilderness, the Michigan senator said she will span everything from strategy to tactics and tone, acknowledging public perception of the party as “weak and woke” needs to change. She is urging Democrats to “fucking retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism, to adopt “the goddamn Alpha energy” of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and to embrace an “airing out” of potential 2028 presidential candidates in a broadly contested primary.
“Ronald Reagan would be rolling over in his grave” is what she said in her state of the union rebuttal. The dems like to bring up ronald reagan as an exemplar now. Frickin Gross.
Well, when Cheney of all people walked on stage and the democrats welcomed him, that was political suicide too. Unfortunately democrat big corporate donors see nothing wrong with turning the ratchet to the right, so democrats like her will be the new normal I suppose.
Image ref: The ratchet effect.
Nice. Pics really do a lot of heavy lifting. We need a lot more of these.
Only problem is so many people rush to defend the dems