Told to resign from the vice chair or resign from calling out bad octogenarian DNC members. And then they made the decision for him.
Apparently DNC chair Ken Martin cried to Hogg that his chances of raising money and looking like a leader has been crushed by this, in a leaked call.
Ignoring that this is a projection and example of his leadership.
As a reminder 3 members of the DNC have died over the age of 70 this year already.
The concept that a Democrat in office who refuse to step down, is almost never challenged because nobody want to fund it, is undemocratic and counterproductive.
David Hogg is absolutely on the right side here. USA is a deeply flawed democracy, and it starts already within the parties, and it should be pretty self evident that it needs reform.
It’s crazy the DNC goes against him because of “tradition” when he is so clearly right. They had 2 major presidential losses to GOP because of similar stupidity.
If the “Democrats” aren’t even democratic, what hope is there for democracy in USA?
Tradition is inherently conservative, not progression. Just saying.
Very true.
It’s wild that they view their age and incumbency issues as unrelated to their performance in the past decade.
As, apparently, doing and saying nothing to upset status quo is the standard of the current party and has been said so by new Chair Ken Martin.
It literally means no push for better candidates that better represent the people for one thing and doesn’t even begin to get into the number of DNC party members who have died in office in the past years of age related issues.
Democrats have become the party of “young 74 cancer notwithstanding” that gets second cancer four months later