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Last night on Gutfeld!, Greg Gutfeld and his panel tore into Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s call for Democrats to inject “alpha energy” into their party, wondering aloud whether a party addicted to insecurity and identity politics can even muster what she’s asking for. The exchange was pointed and mocking — the sort of reality check Democrats so often need when their messaging collides with their record.
Slotkin herself has been blunt: she told PBS and other outlets that Democrats appear “weak and woke” and that voters want leaders who act like coaches — decisive, unapologetic, and focused on pocketbook issues rather than lecturing from a coastal echo chamber. She’s proposed what she calls a war plan to win back the middle class, arguing the party must change tone and strategy if it hopes to compete.
But here’s the conservative takeaway every patriot should understand: you can’t rebrand courage into a party that systematically rewards timidity. The same elites who lecture Americans on morality and manners also insist on policing language, kneecapping their candidates, and ceding cultural ground to the loudest online mobs. That contradiction isn’t a fixable PR problem — it’s the root cause.
Slotkin admitted part of the problem herself, saying too many Democrats are guided more by fear of Twitter outrage than by conviction or strategy, which makes her call for “alpha energy” equal parts self-awareness and indictment. If elected officials are truly afraid of being canceled by influencers, no pep talk will turn them into bold leaders.
Gutfeld and the panel were right to ask whether Democrats can obtain what they’ve spent years undermining: real backbone. Conservatives see this as proof that the party’s soul-searching is mostly theater; when your default is to appease activist niches, you hollow out the very instincts voters say they admire in a leader — strength, clarity, and results.
Hardworking Americans aren’t moved by slogans — they want policies that lower costs, secure borders, and restore dignity to work. If Democrats truly mean to reclaim blue-collar trust, they’ll need more than a pep rally; they’ll have to abandon the sanctimony that alienates the people they’re trying to win. Until that happens, talk of alpha energy will sound like a campaign memo from a focus group, not a genuine renewal.
So let them talk about alpha energy while conservatives hold them to account. We should cheer when any politician of any party admits failure and calls for change, but we should also call out the hypocrisy when that change is asked of voters while the party clings to the very culture that produced the weakness. America deserves leaders who already have the courage Slotkin is pleading for, not politicians who discover it in a sound bite.
