Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., elicited a firestorm of conservative criticism this week when she said America is in its “angry teenage years” and suggested that President Donald Trump won the 2024 election because voters’ brains are not fully formed.
“I don’t think there’s anyone who feels like what’s going on right now is normal, even if you voted for Trump,” Slotkin told ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday. “We’re about to turn 250 years old, right? We’re still pretty young for a country.”
“These are like our angry teenage years. We are going through this push and pull where we’re happy, we’re sad, we want this, we want that,” Slotkin continued. “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.”
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