Told to resign from the vice chair or resign from calling out bad octogenarian DNC members. And then they made the decision for him.
Apparently DNC chair Ken Martin cried to Hogg that his chances of raising money and looking like a leader has been crushed by this, in a leaked call.
Ignoring that this is a projection and example of his leadership.
As a reminder 3 members of the DNC have died over the age of 70 this year already.
Chuck Schumer ABSOLUTELY needs to be primaried, and if Hogg had been able to say that, citing the basically infinite series of failures that Schumer has represented, Hogg would have won this fight.
This is politics; Democrats are literally the least popular they’ve ever been, and Hogg was willing to speak to that: thats how you make political hay. What Hogg did was the first step in the dance you do to change peoples minds. It was politically savvy to pick up on that and move on it. But he had no follow up. He got a great first punch in, and had no gas for round two. He fumbled on the second step.
Biden’s brain was melting live on stage and it was still considered extremely risky to call for him to step aside. Schumer is just bad at his job and failing to meet the moment. There’s no way Hogg comes away better both by publicly declaring his enemies list and including one of the most powerful members of the party on it.
By idiots. The people hand wringing the risk were, and are, idiots.
I think you have no conception of what works in terms of politics.
Lol, sure bud. Likewise.
Its self evident dude. People defending Biden staying in the race were fucking idiots. They’ve been demonstrated to be wrong. Horribly wrong. Handing the country to fascism wrong. The people saying that Biden needed to step down were right.
Listen to the people who got it right. Use their frameworks for evaluating reality.
IF you continue using the same broken/ wrong frame work for thinking these things through, you are just repeating their same idiotic approach.
Being idiots and being wrong doesn’t mean you lose fights. If it wasn’t risky to attack Biden, despite the blatantly obvious need to get him out, it wouldn’t have taken weeks of nobodies trickling out in opposition before anyone of significance took the step.
Hogg being more directly hostile to centers of power in the Democratic party would absolutely not have made him win the fight to keep his position in the power structure. Thinking that’s how politics works is just delusional.
Your literal response is why I think you have no conception of what works in terms of politics. Your framework was WRONG. It didn’t predict things. The people you rely on for their “popular wisdon”: They GOT IT WRONG!!
If you keep just reusing the same mental frameworks when they don’t predict future states of the world, NO ONE, should listen to you. If your mind doesn’t agree with the evidence, you need to change your mind dude.
You downvote me for agreeing that Schumer needed to be primaried but noting the nuance of the infighting that would happen from it? You even responded so it added to the conversation. Sorry just seems odd use of that.
I think the people would agree and he would win the appearance game but I think the party would close ranks hard on anyone saying anything against Schumer and he would be ousted completely and smeared.
I agree he didn’t have a second punch ready I just think no second punch would be big enough yet. Wish it was more of a fight but the DNC operates as unit when it’s their own money and appearance on the line.