Posted on 04/21/2025 1:18:08 AM PDT by Libloather
David Hogg represents the openly Leninist faction in the democrat party. This is a major element, perhaps the dominant element, in the activist circles that consider themselves the vanguard party, entitled to tell rank and file democrats around the country who they are supposed to nominate.
The boss vs. grassroots dynamic is present in both parties, and in a great many broadly based membership organizations of many kinds. In the churches, this is often the laity and many orthodox priests and pastors in the congregations vs. the churches’ central leadership bodies, many of which have been co-opted by the left, corrupted the seminaries and turned various institutional ministries into movement left funding machines. In the unions, it is entrenched, radical left bosses who no longer represent an often much-more moderate rank and file. The list goes on and on. Corrupt leadership structures can seize control and turn the organization to their own uses, while the rank and file members grumble that the leadership is no longer representative. But do the rank and file members stay, or walk?
The GOP isn’t immune to this either, but at roots it is still a grassroots-up, confederational party that recognizes and tolerates differences of opinion. Trump’s insistence that everyone kiss his ring runs against the grain and is the source of many of Trump’s tensions with the party establishment. Trump doesn’t lead a coalition, which would require bringing the factions along; he wants to give orders. That’s the way the democrats have been behaving since 1968, when the delegates to the Democratic National Convention suppressed the elected Illinois democrat delegates and installed the Jesse Jackson rump faction. (Running a coup against the host city and state, which was pretty cheeky.) “This is what democracy looks like!!!!” wasn’t yet the slogan, but it’s the same principle today. But Trump is now a lame duck president, and if Republicans don’t hold both the House and Senate in 2026, Trump will be a spent force at that point.
Anyone who wants the GOP to become a boss-dominated party should forget about Trump for a moment and give thought to whose ring you want to kiss a couple of years from now. I think Trump is a one-off and that the GOP will revert to the confederational model. The downside is that the GOP has endless tensions, largely regional in nature. The plus side is that all the interesting debate, all the creative thinking and new ideas, and all the constructive energy is on the right, while the democrats are led by a self-perpetuating cabal of hacks, many of whom have done nothing in their lives except serve the machine.
So: in David Hogg, the dems now have a vice-chair (one of three) who thinks it is the business of the DNC to dictate democrat primary results. Gee, if only Michael Steele, Reince Priebus, or Ronna McDaniel had thought of that. I don’t think that’s a good model — YMMV — but then again, I don’t like the boss-led model.
At age 25 and with no record of serious achievement in any field other than social media hackery, David Hogg is a perfect representative of the activist faction: a witless buffoon whose role is to serve as a willing tool of whatever shadowy bosses are pulling the strings in the background. But he feels entitled to run purges of democrats who actually ran for office and got themselves elected by real voters. (Well, probably mostly real voters in most cases.) He’s the political equivalent of a social media influencer. Even in democrat circles, I can’t believe he is taken seriously by anyone this side of AOC. The David Hoggs of the world serve as a smokescreen; the question is who making the real decisions.
My thoughts exactly!
Where did Hogg get $100,000?
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