Elissa Slotkin wants to scare, threaten young Republicans away from politics 

Elissa Slotkin is a Democratic senator from Michigan, and supposedly one of the more moderate members of her party. But even Slotkin wants to use the power of the federal government — power she hopes to wield if Democrats take back the Senate — to punish her political opponents. 

In recent remarks of hers that went viral, Slotkin brags about wanting to discourage young Republicans from getting involved in politics and joining the Trump administration by making them fear the threat of prosecution. Take a look.  

That footage came courtesy of The Chicago Thinker, an independent paper at the University of Chicago, where Slotkin spoke last week. And did you get all that? She’s talking deterrence: She wants young Republicans to fear that they will face legal consequences for getting involved in government. That’s what she wants to do with the congressional majority: wage lawfare against Republicans and members of the administration so totally and completely that no one will........

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