As I get older, I try not to dismiss people simply because they're younger than me. I remember being on the receiving end of that and it bothered me then, so yeah, I probably shouldn't do it now.

Instead, I dismiss them because they're freaking idiots, regardless of age, as the Good Lord intended.

And right now, that looks to qualify the entirety of the Democratic National Committee. Why do I say that? Because they just elected David Hogg--who I've long dismissed because he's an idiot, not because he's young--as vice chairman.

A survivor of the 2018 Parkland high school shooting has become one of the new vice chairs of the Democratic National Committee.

Former student-turned-gun-control activist David Hogg, 24, was among three people elected to the position Saturday during a meeting in National Harbor, Md., just outside of Washington, DC, to elect the DNC’s next suite of leaders.

“I’m deeply grateful to the members for their trust and belief in me and I don’t take it lightly,” Hogg wrote on X after clinching the role.

Hogg has nudged Democrats to become less judgmental and more forceful in their messaging as the party dithers over what direction to take under the second Trump administration.

“It’s time we stop surrendering, go on offense, and take the fight to Donald Trump,” he added on X. “We need to show [the public] who we are again, to rid our party of its judgmental attitudes, and do the work to win back every group we lost this year.”

Hogg notched around 215 votes, and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta scored 298 votes, above the 205 threshold. Artie Blanco from Nevada nabbed the third vice chair role during the third round of voting.

Of course, let's keep in mind that Hogg has never had an original thought on guns in his entire life, only parroting typical anti-gun talking points. He's simply some kid who used the bodies of his dead classmates as a soapbox to achieve all the notoriety he currently has. 

To be fair, though, it worked. He went from a state-college reject to getting into Harvard.

That says more about Harvard, though, than about Hogg.

The hope of many is that Hogg's election will help the party gain ground with young male voters in 2026 and 2028, particularly among young white men. They lost a lot of ground in that particular demographic in 2024, which directly contributed to Donald Trump's return to the White House.

I'm not sure they realize that the problem wasn't that there was an anti-gun twink in a vice chairmanship but that you can't keep demonizing a particular group of people and then expect them to support you come election time. It just doesn't work that way.

From a Second Amendment standpoint, electing Hogg to such a role makes it very clear that the party is fully and formally embracing gun control. Sure, there will be individual Democrats who support gun rights here and there, but as a party, they have internalized the hostility toward our right to keep and bear arms.

That's the only reason to elect Hogg to such a role since, well, he kind of sucks at getting Democrats elected.