The Parkland survivor discusses his DNC vice chair campaign, the “failed political system,” and how Democrats can win back America’s youth.
President Joe Biden meets with activist and Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg, Friday, September 22, 2023, in the Oval Office.is mounting his bid for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee has exposed brick and a nice view of a specific Washington D.C. landmark, but he’s asked me not to disclose which one.
In his view, there is not one reason why so young people deflected from the Democratic Party — there are many. Members of Gen Z “do not have the privilege of being single-issue voters,” Hogg says.
But the work of getting that legislation passed took a toll on all of the students, says X Gonzalez, a classmate of Hogg’s. “We were taught that if people want to effect change, they go to their legislators, and they raise the issue, and the legislators listen to the people, and then they make the change,” Gonzalez says. Those illusions were quickly shattered.
The idea of running for DNC vice chair appealed to him for similar reasons — and because he’s furious about the outcome of the 2024 campaign. One of the biggest driving factors for Democrats’ loss in 2024 was massive drop in support from 18-29 year olds. Hogg remembers hearing the staggering figures — a 20-point shift to the right — when a Kamala Harris campaign pollster shared her findings with the DNC after the election. He recalls looking around the room during that briefing.
Even now, after the fact, he says, it still feels like no one is listening. “We went out there for eight years saying ‘Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. If he’s elected, the world is going to end and democracy is over.’ And then he got elected, and after he was elected, effectively said: ‘Well, guys, there isn’t anything different we could have done. Let’s throw our hands up in the air, and we’ll see you again in four years.
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