Democrats Panic As DNC Threatens To Fund Primary Challengers Against Spineless Lawmakers

Democratic Party vice chair David Hogg is working on transforming the Party from the inside, and his moves are sending Democrats into a complete panic. Hogg recently suggested that the DNC could start funding primary challengers against spineless, ineffective Democratic lawmakers, and that didn’t sit well with the Party establishment. But this type of bold action is absolutely needed inside the DNC, and Hogg is doing a great job with both his force and his ideas. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Democrats in the House Senate and across the country right now don't seem to be too happy with the Democratic Party's new Vice Chair David Hog. Because David, who, as we all know of course, is a Parkland survivor, um, actually wants to kind of revamp the Democratic party, make it a little bit younger, make it a little bit more aggressive. So the establishment folks across the country are freaking the hell out. And you know what they should be? Because these are the people that have been dragging the Democratic party down for decades. People like James Carville who recently referred to David Hog last week as a quote, little twerp, little twerp said The man who really has no victories to speak of, he should be thanking Ross Perot for anybody even knowing his name. Because had it not been for Ross Perot siphoning off enough votes to allow Bill Clinton to win by less than 50% of the popular vote in 1992, nobody in this country would know or care who James Carville is.

Nevertheless, David Hog is making waves within the Democratic Party because he told the New York Times recently, he wants the party to pledge about $20 million to bringing in challengers to incumbent Democrats, which again is a very aggressive move. However, it's a very smart move. He wants to bring in younger people since we have this aging Democratic party and it's a Democratic party whose approval rating is at the lowest point in history. So obviously Democrats, even with as unpopular as trumpet, the Republicans are Democrats are still not resonating with people. So David Hog Youngblood comes in vice chair of the DNC and says, let's change this. Let's do better. And the Democrats are off. Let me read you some of these quotes. I think this is a mistake. Set a house Democrat who spoke anonymously frigging coward. Now, are people? Uh, I don't know a single person who is happy about it. Another Democrat told Axios quote, it seems inappropriate for a DNC vice chair to threaten sitting dims. Another one said they're totally dumbfounded that instead of focusing on winning, we're focusing inward in a circular firing squad. You guys sound worried. Why are you worried? Are you one of those aging lawmakers that pretend, uh, that you can just live there forever in DC and not ever have to face your constituents again? 'cause you're in a safe blue district? Maybe. Maybe you're one of those Democrats that's so spineless that you're not even willing to give your name when you want to criticize your own party, right? I mean, all three of you actually fit that bill.

Maybe you're some of the Democrats in Washington DC right now that think, Hey, we could just sit back and do nothing. Maybe issue a strong tweet every now and then and the Republicans will tank themselves. We don't have to embrace the public. Meanwhile, you got Bernie Sanders and a OC crisscrossing the country drawing tens of thousands of people in red states. A new poll came out last week showing that 72% of Democrats in the country, 72% want the party to abandon their centrist positions. They want the party. 72% of Democrats want the party to go further left. I am part of that 72%. I'm a registered Democrat. I want us to move to the left. I'm in the majority. If you're fighting against this, by the way, like these sitting lawmakers, you're in the minority. Most people think you're wrong and your way is wrong and your path is wrong. Let's face it, Democrats, we shouldn't have lost in 2024. That was crazy.

But your failures let this guy get back into the White House and let's admit that we failed, not because we had a horrible candidate. I think Kamala Harris was a good candidate. I think Tim Walls was a good candidate. I don't think we had bad candidates.