Sen. Slotkin Wants Young Americans Afraid to Serve. That Is the Wrong Message for a Free Country.

The Michigan Democrat said she wants a "deterrence message" sent to graduates thinking about joining the Trump administration. President Trump is right to call it out. Public service should never come with a warning label from the opposition party.

By Clara Hughes

Elissa Slotkin said the quiet part out loud. Speaking at the University of Chicago a few weeks before the midterms, the Michigan Democrat argued that her party should aim its investigations at the people who work for President Trump. Her goal, in her own words, was to make young people coming out of school think twice before joining his administration. "I want them to be like, 'Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don't want, and so let me avoid participating in that,'" Slotkin said. "I want that deterrence message sent." Read that again. A sitting U.S. senator wants the brightest young conservatives in America to be too frightened to serve their country. Keep reading with Altas Premium. Below: what the president