David Hogg, a gun control activist and former co-founder of March for Our Lives, announced his candidacy for DNC Vice Chair. Hogg aims to address concerns about the party's waning appeal to young men and its resistance to constructive criticism. He emphasizes the need for age diversity within the party and calls for a culture that embraces honest feedback.
And Hogg, who is currently president of Leaders We Deserve, a group backing Gen Z progressive candidates for office, is not seeking the position to make friends.The Harvard graduate and co-founder of the gun control group March for Our Lives is running partly out of frustration that his warnings that Democrats had a problem with young men went unheeded before Election Day, and wants to make sure the party doesn’t make the same mistake twice.
Hogg is still struck by the “ridicule” with which his warnings were met at a brunch held by the DNC Finance Committee during theHogg, who is 24, is also running because he thinks it’s important for Democrats to take age diversity seriously. He recalled how dramatically he would bring down the median age while attending the DNC’s executive council and rules and bylaws committee meetings.
The DNC has a vice chair for civic engagement and voter participation, and three general vice chair positions. The party’s convening arm will assemble to elect a new chair, vice chairs, secretary, treasurer and finance chair on Feb. 1.When there is a Democratic president, it has been customary for the DNC members to quietly approve the president’s picks for chair as well as vice chairs.
“I don’t think her going on Joe Rogan necessarily would have decided the election, by any means,” he said. “But I think it speaks to a broader problem within the party where we’re choosing to live in a comfortable delusion a lot of the time of where the country actually is, rather than an uncomfortable reality of where it is.”As for the podcaster himself, Hogg added, “The reality is, Joe Rogan cannot give an adversarial interview to save his life.
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