OPINION:
David Hogg, a 25-year-old who survived a 2014 Parkland, Florida, school shooting to launch a career of anti-Second Amendment activism and boycott movements against “The Ingraham Angle” and anyone who poked fun of his message and f-bombing, juvenile messaging style, has ignited a Democrat Party firestorm by using his Democratic National Committee vice chair platform to call for primaries against leftist politicians who aren’t, well, leftist enough for his liking.
He wants to spend $20 million of DNC funds to get after these wayward Democrats. He plans to spend all that money to purge the “ineffective” Dems, as he calls them, and bring in better ones who will — let’s face it, this is what he wants — do his bidding.
And now Democrats are in an uproar. As they should be. Spending Democrat money to take out Democrat politicians is probably a bit of a surprise to donors who assumed their money would be used to take out Republicans. Longtime Dem strategist James Carville, never one to mince words, put it this way on CNN: “[It’s] the most insane thing.” He said more.
“He is an officer of the Democratic National Committee. And so he has a fiduciary duty to the Democratic Party, and he’s going to raise $20 million and primary Democrats? … Why don’t you take on a Republican? That’s your job,” Carville went on. He said more.
“I’m not part of the hip generation. I’m not very au courant. But I actually thought our job was to beat Republicans? How quaint. How quaint of me,” he continued. He [previously] said more.
“James Carville says he might sue ‘contemptible little twerp’ David Hogg for challenging incumbent Democrats,” The Independent reported.
Contemptible little twerp — that’s quite a mouthful. But if true, Hogg is simply a creation of the Democrats. He is to the Democrat Party what Greta Thunberg is to the globalists: political gold.
Hogg is a child victim of horrific violence, angry and loud. Thunberg is a child victim of autism, also angry, also loud. It’s the perfect meeting of circumstances and character, all wrapped in youthful ignorance that’s ripe for Democrat picking. And pick the Democrats did. Democrats have spent years using and exploiting Hogg — as well as Thunberg — and head patting their oft-inane, crude and, in Hogg’s case, curse-word laden staged explosions against all-things-conservative, all-things-Republican. And Dems have had great success with their exploitative endeavors, mostly because any dissensions to the madness were quickly squelched by tossing down the victim card, and crying loudly; repeating as needed.
But now Democrats are getting a taste of their own created madness. They don’t like it; not one little bit.
“DNC chair rebukes David Hogg for pushing primaries against Democratic incumbents,” NBC News wrote.
“David Hogg riles Democratic Party with plans to primary incumbents,” The Washington Post wrote.
Hogg responded to Carville’s “twerp” slam by calling Carville “timid.” Carville stands by his threat to sue Hogg for misappropriation of DNC funds. Hogg responded to Carville’s threat of lawsuit by saying, “Try it.” Drama, drama, drama. Children trying to take over the room from adults.
“The Hogg vs. Carville civil war captures sorry state of Democratic Party,” The Washington Examiner wrote.
Yes. And it’s all of the Democrat Party’s own making.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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