Not That Kind of Introspection!
David Hogg gets the boot: “David Hogg, the young vice chair of the Democratic National Committee who divided the party over his plans to intervene in primary races against sitting Democratic lawmakers, said that he would step aside from his prominent post after the party voted to force him to run again on Wednesday,” reports The New York Times. Hogg, 25, first rose to prominence as a gun control activist after surviving the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. “It is clear that there is a fundamental disagreement about the role of a Vice Chair,” wrote Hogg, detailing his reasons for quitting (following what was essentially an ouster), “and it’s OK to have disagreements. What isn’t OK is allowing this to remain our focus when there is so much more we need to be focused on.”
Some of the criticism of Hogg has centered around his involvement in the group Leaders We Deserve, which essentially seeks to primary the old and out-of-touch within the Democratic party, supporting young scrappy progressive upstarts who might want to run for office. (“A few members of the old-school Democratic establishment are pissed at me for calling us weak,” wrote Hogg in a recent fundraising email.)
Heresy!
“Last month a DNC panel found that Hogg and Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta were not properly elected earlier this year because their election ran afoul of gender-diversity rules,” reports The Washington Post. And Hogg’s recent comments on Real Time with Bill Maher surely didn’t help his case: “What I think happened last election is younger men—they would rather vote for somebody who they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.” (No lies detected.) He then mentioned that young dudes just want to “get laid and have fun.” If the idea is to win the approval of the DNC scolds, Hogg is going about it in the absolute worst way possible. (As for the DNC panel’s decision, Hogg commented,”I don’t even know if it makes sense for us to have the gender balance rule anymore in this day and age, because I want to focus on whoever’s just best at the job.”)
In other words, a Democratic Party ostensibly focused on the need for course correction, self-reflection,
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