The Democratic Nationwide Committee’s new vice-chairman likes to type himself as anti-gun activist. However he’s way more harmful than that.
Hogg, 24, rose to political fame within the wake of the 2018 Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty capturing, of which he was a survivor. Tragically, a lot of his classmates weren’t so fortunate.
Since then, Hogg has launched into quite a lot of unsuccessful political ventures together with the March For Our Lives gun management protests, a failed boycott of Fox Information and particularly The Ingraham Angle and the launch of the pillow firm known as Good Pillow, which was supposed to place Mike Lindell’s MyPillow out of enterprise.
Whereas a few of Hogg’s concepts have gained traction, none of them have ever achieved their supposed objectives of overturning the Second Modification and placing Fox Information and MyPillow out of enterprise.
Hogg’s political rise additionally earned him a spot at Harvard College, from which he graduated in 2023.
Nonetheless, Hogg’s election because the vice-chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee provides him a stage of institutional energy that his activism has by no means been capable of afford him.
BREAKING: DNC Elects Anti-Gun Activist David Hogg as Vice Chair
With this in thoughts, it’s value studying this submit put out by the Republican operative Steve Visitor which exposes Hogg’s radical far-left views.
Among the many concepts he has espoused, many by way of the megaphone of the X platform embrace abolishing ICE, defunding the police, and declaring the NRA a terrorist group.
He additionally has an embarassing lack of information in regards to the U.S. structure, as soon as claiming that the Second Modification was solely designed to offer every state the correct to an armed nationwide guard.
He additionally has 0 data about how the Structure works. pic.twitter.com/nhX7HDouQz
— Steve Visitor (@SteveGuest) February 2, 2025
After 4 rounds of voting on Saturday, Hogg gained 215 votes and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta gained 298 votes, greater than the 205 votes wanted for them to develop into vice chairs.
In his victory speech, Hogg promised to “kick some ass.”
“Who’s able to take the battle to the Republicans and win this factor? Are you guys able to battle? It’s been an extended day, however guess what? We’ve got an extended highway forward,” he declared.
“Let’s go and kick some ass. Let’s go win our younger individuals again, and let’s cease sending simply our ideas and prayers to handle gun violence and do one thing.”
After Parkland, our nation was in the same second—the place we had a Republican trifecta in Washington, and we as college students have been instructed it wasn’t going to be potential for us to create change. However we didn’t hear. We went on the offense, put the Republicans on the protection, and we gained.… pic.twitter.com/oJ1SNcqsLh
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) February 2, 2025