Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg’s plan to spend $20 million to primary older Democratic incumbents in Congress has sparked intense anger from some lawmakers.
Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg’s plan to spend $20 million to primary older Democratic incumbents in Congress has sparked intense anger from some lawmakers.
Provided that the person calling for it has the opinions you prefer on guns. And only guns.
No, that conclusion does not follow from the facts at hand. There are any number of issues that raise my ire. I’ve railed just as vociferously against Hogg for guns as I have against any number of democratic fossils, for reasons ranging from pro-genocide, to appeasing Republicans, to senility. Gun control is just one of many disqualifying conditions. That he and I share an absolute disgust for Retired-in-Place Democrats is not sufficient to rehabilitate his image. He is an honorary fossil, and needs to go along with them.
Just seems like whenever there’s someone who is trying to get the party to move to the left, suddenly there’s some criterion for why they shouldn’t.
Bernie’s too old and that was a problem from 2016 until the second Biden announced. It’s a problem again now that Biden is out of office. AOC is a woman and that’s suddenly a problem because she’s seizing the moment. Hogg doesn’t agree with the NRA on guns.
There’s always some excuse.
Again, “gun control” is not a leftist issue. Gun control is keeping the party from moving left.
Further, Hogg isn’t trying to move the party to the left. He openly supports legacy Democrats like Pelosi and Hillary who built the failed party, and he is looking for younger candidates who will keep the party right where theose decrepit fossils planted it.
Because you don’t like that he’s not Wayne LaPierre?
No part of my comment history suggests I have ever supported Wayne LaPierre.
You and I probably agree on 99% of the issues, but you’re willing to alienate me on the basis of this particular, obviously divisive issue.
You are not alone in this. The party has long used gun control as a purity test, rejecting candidates (and alienating voters) who offer anything less than full-throated support for gun control.
But that purity test is one of the things that needs to be excised from the party.
Gun control does not have the broad support it did in the 90’s. The wave of concealed carry adoption in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s has radically expanded the number and political diversity of gun owners across the country. The party has thus far failed to recognize this shift in the political climate. We can see the results.
Until just now, when centrist control of the party is threatened.
Until just now… Did you just decide to stop using gun control as a purity test?
No, you just decided to start.