{"id":2409633,"date":"2025-03-04T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-would-be-better-off-not-responding-to-trumps-address\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:47:13","slug":"dems-would-be-better-off-not-responding-to-trumps-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-would-be-better-off-not-responding-to-trumps-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Would Be Better Off Not Responding To Trump&#8217;s Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-would-be-better-off-not-responding-to-trumps-address%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2409633&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-issues-multiple-corrections-for-article-falsely-claiming-900000-u-s-children-have-been-hospitalized-for-covid-19-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"New York Times Issues Multiple Corrections For Article Falsely Claiming 900,000 U.S. Children Have Been Hospitalized For COVID-19 During Pandemic\">article discusses<\/a> the \u2063Democratic response to President Donald Trump&#8217;s joint \u200baddress to Congress,which will be delivered by Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin. It critiques the \u2063decision \u200cto \u200bhave a &#8220;moderate&#8221; senator speak on behalf \u200bof the party, suggesting that \u2063voters\u200c won&#8217;t accept the narrative that the current economic issues began with Trump&#8217;s presidency.\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-is-likely-to-be-nominated-but-may-lose-unless-foul-play-is-involved\/\" title=\"Kamala is likely to be nominated but may lose unless foul play is involved\">author expresses \u200cskepticism<\/a>\u200c about Slotkin&#8217;s potential arguments, \u200cparticularly\u2064 regarding the recent tariffs Trump imposed and their economic repercussions. The article argues \u2064that Democrats lack the credibility to \u2063criticize Trump&#8217;s policies effectively, given past governance failures. it presents\u2063 a critical perspective on the Democratic strategy for responding \u200bto Trump&#8217;s address.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g2HL9e9dF50\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes\/YouTube<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/04\/democrats-would-be-better-off-not-responding-to-trumps-joint-address-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Democrats%20Would%20Be%20Better%20Off%20Not%20Responding%20To%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Joint%20Address%20To%20Congress&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/04\/democrats-would-be-better-off-not-responding-to-trumps-joint-address-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Democrats%20Would%20Be%20Better%20Off%20Not%20Responding%20To%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Joint%20Address%20To%20Congress&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/04\/democrats-would-be-better-off-not-responding-to-trumps-joint-address-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/04\/democrats-would-be-better-off-not-responding-to-trumps-joint-address-to-congress\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Democrats%20Would%20Be%20Better%20Off%20Not%20Responding%20To%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20Joint%20Address%20To%20Congress&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/04\/democrats-would-be-better-off-not-responding-to-trumps-joint-address-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s supposed to be a highly clever move by Democrats to have picked a Midwest &ldquo;moderate&rdquo; senator who outperformed Kamala Harris in 2024 &mdash; talk about a low bar &mdash; to deliver the party&rsquo;s response to President Trump&rsquo;s address to Congress on Tuesday. But in case you won&rsquo;t make it to 11 p.m. EST for that one, here&rsquo;s what you&rsquo;ll miss: Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin will likely sit at a kitchen table and offer a ridiculous argument that Donald Trump&rsquo;s one month in office is the reason why prices are high and &ldquo;chaos&rdquo; has reigned.<\/p>\n<p>They will have surely paid some political consultant tens of thousands of dollars to come up with that corny display and, look &mdash; I just gave it to them for free.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-729590640\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not particularly generous in crediting the American public for its long memory, but I suspect not a single person will be receptive to the claim that it was only on Jan. 20, 2025, that the nation plunged into a nightmare of unaffordable groceries and foreign wars. No, that was a steady project four years in the making under the last administration. Slotkin will surely hype up the trade tariffs Trump just slapped on Mexico, Canada, and China as the cause of current prices, but in the words of our despicable news media, she will do it &ldquo;without evidence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>We very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outside-groups-leading-trump-gotv-game-may-be-a-good-thing\/\" title=\"Outside Groups Leading Trump GOTV Game May Be A Good Thing\">literally don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t know what the effect of the new tariffs will be. Any price increases will likely be temporary, as consumers reduce the amount of affected products they consume, which inevitably forces companies to bring the costs back down in order to sell more. Or maybe events take place eliminating any purpose for the tariffs before they have any enduring effect. Either way, to the extent that there&rsquo;s a case to be made against Trump&rsquo;s economic agenda, boy, oh boy, are Democrats in no position to make it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know much about Slotkin, but I can only assume she&rsquo;s an idiot for having agreed to give her party&rsquo;s rebuttal. Unless she was empowered by leadership to stand up and say Democrat failure is what got us in the very situation we find ourselves, there&rsquo;s not much else for her to do that would hold any value. But she was certainly not given that permission. Democrats don&rsquo;t believe they failed to govern. They believe they failed to convince voters that their destructive, anti-American policies were actually good.<\/p>\n<p>In every interview given by an elected Democrat, they say some variation of the same thing. Their &ldquo;messaging&rdquo; failed. They need to do better <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/17\/democrats-keep-convincing-themselves-their-problem-is-podcasts-its-their-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on podcasts<\/a>. They need to talk like &ldquo;real&rdquo; Americans. They need to &ldquo;emphasize&rdquo; the &ldquo;concerns&rdquo; of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>What they won&rsquo;t say is that their party&rsquo;s agenda, enacted by President Biden was a total, mind-blowing bust. The trillions of unnecessary spending they dumped on the quickly recovering economy has made a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">single dollar essentially worthless<\/a>. The government backing of electric vehicles and &ldquo;green technology&rdquo; has warped the auto and energy industries. And stunning incompetence in foreign relations has left us still managing two hot wars abroad.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&rsquo;t even address the rampant crime instigated and excused by Democrat leaders, the lasting devastation of their Covid lockdown mandates, and the corrosive effects of their nauseous fixations on race and sex.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and Slotkin can say whatever they want about Trump and the &ldquo;chaos&rdquo; he caused by laying off government employees, but they&rsquo;ve nothing to say for themselves.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/congress\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/elissa-slotkin\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Elissa Slotkin<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/inflation\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Inflation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Joe Biden<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/joint-address\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">joint address<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Trump Administration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats chose a Midwest &#8220;moderate&#8221; 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