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Young, Dumb, And Oh-So Earnest

Young, Dumb, And Oh-So Earnest

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May 04, 2025
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David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland high school mass shooting and subsequent anti-gun activist, is at the tender age of twenty-five one of five vice chairs of the Democratic National Committee. He joins Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a young face of the Democratic Party, and like AOC is full-throated in advocacy for progressive policies and leftist politics. His big idea? To primary incumbent Democrats in safe districts in order to move the Party leftward.

To go, as one Internet friend notes, 'full tilt socialism.' Here I'm prompted to channel Kirk Lazarus, but I will refrain.

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