Democrats elected gun control activist David Hogg as DNC vice chairman because they hoped he'd be able to get young men to vote Democrat. That didn't happen in 2024, and that was a big issue for them. It's clearly something Democrats want badly.
Of course, they elected someone with little electoral experience to an important position, and it seems the leadership is regretting that something fierce.
How much?
Well, the DNC chairman is literally crying about it.
Liberal gun-control activist David Hogg, 25, popular on the left, has brought self-admitted unknown Democrat National Committee Chair Ken Martin, 51, to tears and sharing a defeatist attitude.
"No one knows who the hell I am, right?" Martin told Democrat leaders and Hogg in a two-minute audio clip shared Sunday by Politico, which ends with the chairman's voice cracking with audio emotion if not tears.
"I'm trying to get my sea legs underneath of me and actually develop any amount of credibility so I can go out there and raise the money and do the job I need to to put ourselves in a position to win.
"And again, I don't think you intended this, but you essentially destroyed any chance I have to show the leadership that I need to.
"So it's really frustrating."
With pauses and sounds of sniffling, the audio of the May 15 Zoom call ends.
"The other night I said to myself for the first time, I don't know if I wanna do this anymore," Martin said before emotion apparently overtook him in multiple moments of choking up.
The issue is that Hogg has vowed to use his position to primary Democrats who refuse to toe the line on his personal agenda. While that agenda mirrors the official Democratic agenda in many ways, it gives priority to certain issues, such as gun control, whereas the party has largely focused on other things.
And this will probably lead to Hogg's ouster, as there is a new vote today on leadership due to claims of "diversity" procedures not being followed correctly.
But honestly, I hope he's not removed.
Why?
Because they deserve one another.
Hogg is what most people might term a grifter. He might believe what he's saying, but he's really mostly in this for the profit. He made a name for himself after Parkland and has used the bodies of his dead classmates as a soapbox to scream at the top of his lungs for attention. While most of his classmate-allies have since moved on, Hogg continues because he's found a way to make a living having to do absolutely nothing.
And he won't get that money if he just smiles and plays along. He has to rock the boat because that's what he's built his brand on.
So, they took a one-issue guy who really isn't even that smart on that one issue, elected him to a pretty high office in the party, and now they're regretting it. Martin is literally in tears, and it's because David Hogg, the obnoxious twit, is being an obnoxious twit.
It's poetic, really.
Look, I'm snarky. I know I'm snarky. That's kind of my brand. And if you agree with me, you love the snark. When I use it on something you disagree with me on, you probably hate it.
Hogg, though, is just obnoxious, not because he supports gun control, but because he's obnoxious. Does anyone else remember him talking about everyone older than him like they're freaking idiots and how he and his generation needed to save us from ourselves?
The Democratic National Committee voters didn't realize that when they elected him. Now, they do, and they're displeased with the product they got.
Personally, I hope they keep getting what they deserve on this.
Yes, there are pro-gun Democrats out there, but those aren't the ones who put Hogg in such a position in the first place.
The rest of them are getting what they deserve, and they got it good and hard.
