David Hogg.
What can I say about him that hasn’t been said before? He’s someone who used the bodies of his slain classmates as a soapbox to earn himself fame and fortune, a state college reject who got into Harvard because of his “activism,” and someone who thinks he can get people elected to office but has a terrible track record doing so.
Oh, let’s not forget failed pillow salesman.
But now he’s facing a serious challenge for probably the first time in his life, and that’s the fact that despite getting a comfy gig as the vice chairman of the DNC, he’s managed to piss off so many people that now he’s looking at getting the boot.
And the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is loving it.
From a press release:
The Democratic National Committee can say whatever they want about calling for a new election which could replace gun ban activist David Hogg as vice chair, but the fact remains he quickly became a pain in the political neck and everybody knows it, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
Hogg has been in office less than six months and he has already started a civil war within the party which veteran strategist James Carville was smart enough to take out of the public light. Hogg announced plans to spend some $20 million to primary older Democrat incumbents in safe congressional districts, in an effort to attract younger activists back to the party.
“Democrats have obviously discovered something about Hogg the Second Amendment community knew almost immediately several years ago,” said CCRKBA Managing Director Andrew Gottlieb. “He’s a self-aggrandizing attention grabber, who wants to play power broker. His agenda is about him, not the party he pretends to serve, or the lives lost to armed criminals and crazy people who ignore existing gun laws and will get around any new laws he demands.
“Hogg has been a mouthpiece for the gun prohibition movement,” Gottlieb observed, “which profits off of gun-related violence. The more serious the mayhem, the more sensational headlines and thus the more money they can raise by promising an end to violence by restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens. It’s about like promising to stop a blizzard by banning snow plows.”
While Hogg fancies himself as a party reformer, his activities so far suggest he’s a party crasher with the mindset of a grifter, CCRKBA said. No doubt Democrats agree with his gun ban philosophy, but they simply can’t stand his juvenile political behavior, and using procedural concerns is a flimsy sham effort to avoid admitting they have grown weary of his grandstanding.
“Clearly,” Gottlieb said, “Hogg’s my-way-or-the-highway approach and his willingness to throw his elders under the nearest bus has not gone over well with party leaders. With him, it’s ‘all about Hogg,’ so he has quickly worn out whatever welcome he may have had. He forgets that change is guided by big men, not big mouths.”
Now, I agree with all of this. Hogg is exactly who we’ve been saying he is, an arrogant little schmuck who thinks he knows more than everyone else, particularly those who have been around longer and understand how the system works. They celebrated him with that arrogance was targeting their enemies, but now that he’s turned it on them, they want him gone.
But I also have to say something that may not be particularly popular, and that’s how I think he’s ultimately getting the shaft.
See, for all of Hogg’s crap, he hasn’t actually broken any formal rules. At least, he hasn’t to the extent that they can justify kicking him out of the role for them.
Instead, they don’t like him, so they’ve seemingly concocted this whole narrative of irregularities in the nomination process and how the party’s diversity requirements weren’t met. That seems kind of suspect, considering that he’s been in the role for months and there wasn’t an issue until he started making waves.
So yeah, it’s all kind of sus.
That said, it’s David Hogg and I don’t really care all that much if the little twerp gets shafted by his own side.
Especially since he actually said some sound things on Bill Maher’s show recently, things the DNC doesn’t want to admit. Obviously, it was nothing about guns because he’s an idiot on that subject and probably always will be.
It seems his grifting on guns has finally translated into problems for everyone else and I can’t help but laugh.
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