[SLOTKIN IS DESIGNING A WAR PLAN. In my opinion, Slotkin (CIA) is the leader of the seditious 6, working with States United Democracy Group (Marc Elias/Lawfare). Following is an excerpt from an interview between Neera Tanden and Elissa Slotkin.]
Sen. Elissa Slotkin on a New Vision for the Democratic Party
Last week, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D) of Michigan paid a visit to the Center for American Progress Action Fund, where she talked about her plan for Democrats to meet the urgency of this moment. As you will recall, she was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2018, during the first set of midterms after President Trump’s first inauguration, and she won her race for Senate in 2024 in a state that voted for Donald Trump again. She reflected about the lessons she’s learned since then and the economic and narrative playbook she’s putting together for Democrats to fight back against Republicans’ attacks.
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Slotkin: So I would say—I’m coming up on six months that I’ve been in the Senate, and my hot take is that we no longer divide along progressive versus moderate lines. I think that’s very 2017, that debate. I think the debate is how do you answer one single existential question: Is the second Trump administration an existential threat to democracy, or is the second Trump administration bad but, kind like the first Trump administration, survivable if we just wait it out?
And how you answer that question puts you in one camp or the other. And I serve with people who are like, “This is existential. He’s threatening the very bones of our democracy.” That’s the camp I fall into. And then—
Tanden: I was going to ask.
Slotkin: Yeah, that’s my camp. That’s the camp. I think that is the camp.
But then there’s a lot, a lot, of people, Democrats, who are like, “We just got to wait for him to overplay his hand, and the people will turn on him.” And so it’s mixing up like a mixing bowl these labels of progressive, moderate, whatever. That’s less relevant. It’s fight or flight.
And so I think that is more what I see. And I think we are churning behind closed doors to figure out which camp is going to win. But I also just want to say,I can’t put out a war plan without noting that in order to actually execute, coming from the Pentagon, the Marines need to talk to the Army. The Navy needs to be in touch with the Air Force.
Democrats are very disparate. We’re like a solar system with no sun. We got a lot of planets, some with their own gravitational pull. We got a lot of stars. But there’s not enough cohering us. And you can’t retake the town of Mosul without a plan, but then also a coordinated effort by all parties to specialize and do things. Everyone has a different role to play. Right?
Tanden: Right.
Slotkin: The infantry is different from the air cover, but you work as a team.
And I think this is what is the second part of my concern, is that we don’t act as a team. And when we do that, when we don’t work as a team, we turn our guns on each other. And it’s so, so, so fruitless.
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July 2025
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/sen-elissa-slotkin-on-a-new-vision-for-the-democratic-party/