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!
