As progressives notch win after win in Democratic primaries, the 26-year-old activist said it shows that the party "didn’t lose Gen Z; they just needed candidates to vote for."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50400546

Just over a year ago, David Hogg, then the newly-minted vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, found himself unceremoniously pushed out after he called on the party to back primary challengers to unseat members of a moribund establishment.

Now, as progressives notch victory after victory against the party’s conservative old guard and are once again galvanizing young voters thought to have been lost, the 26-year-old reformer says it proves he was right all along.

  • Addv4@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Yep. Head in the office did an interview with him a while ago (before we knew why Ken Martin didn’t want to release the 2024 retrospective), and I remember thinking he just sounded like a guy tired of dealing with obvious bullshit.