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Related: About this forumDavid Hogg Is Right: Fascism Is Here. Stop Pretending Otherwise.
The fight for democracy wont be won by Democrats who refuse to fight back.
https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/david-hogg-is-right-fascism-is-here
I usually keep my focus on Texas politics. Thats where I live, thats where I vote, and frankly, Texas gives us no shortage of battles worth fighting. So I dont wade into national party drama lightly. There are already too many voices in that conversation. But the so-called controversy surrounding David Hogg isnt just about the DNC or safe-seat primaries. Its about the kind of politics that will or wont survive the moment were living through. And that absolutely includes Texas.
If you care about whats happening in Texas, to our trans kids, to our immigrant neighbors, to working people and public schools, then you already know the Democratic status quo in Washington, DC, isnt cutting it. And the pushback against Hoggs $20 million strategy to primary entrenched Democrats should sound familiar. Its the same pearl-clutching we hear every time someone dares to suggest the problem isnt just Republicans, but the Democrats, too scared, too compromised, or too tired to fight them.
Lets be clear: the nightmare is already here. A woman was abducted off a street in Boston by unmarked agents. Asylum seekers are being held in US-sanctioned concentration camps. Were not approaching a constitutional crisis. Were living inside the fallout. Fascism is here.

AkFemDem
(2,497 posts)The whole POINT of primaries is to bring in fresh blood. In a general election it should be all hands on deck, everyone on the same page, no deviating from voting for the democrat. Primaries, though? That's when we get to shape the culture and future of our party and no one is forcing any of us to vote for democrat A over democrat B. Having viable choices is never a bad thing!
markodochartaigh
(2,707 posts)I think here on Democratic Underground the people who give him "shit" genuinely have opposing viewpoints about which way is best for the DemocratIC party to go. (I'm thinking about capitalizing the IC to get away from the Republicon slanderous trope "DemocRAT).
But I think that David Hogg is very much a target of the reich-wing and any "shit he is catching" in the mainstream media can be dismissed out of hand.
Clouds Passing
(4,454 posts)Skittles
(163,610 posts)I'm tired of Dems begging for money while producing no results - and no, business as usual or the rock-star tour shit doesn't cut it with me. I am willing to give David Hogg the benefit of the doubt. Yes INDEED.
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