Self-styled anti-gun political activist David Hogg has announced plans to “use his advocacy” to help get younger far-left “progressive” candidates elected to public office, calling his movement “Leaders We Deserve.”
The question may be how long it takes before it morphs into “Leaders We’re Stuck With.”
Hogg helped launch an anti-gun youth movement five years ago following the Parkland, Florida high school shooting that left 17 students and adults dead. It was called “March for Our Lives,” and he became something of a media darling, quickly settling into his sudden celebrity status. In the years since he’s been showing up to push an extremist gun control agenda, and now it appears he hopes to load legislatures with like-minded twenty-somethings who will focus on causes popular with liberals, specifically mentioning abortion and gun control.
Hogg announced the effort on Twitter and lamented to CBS News that legislatures around the country are ratcheting down on abortions while “weakening gun laws.” He has teamed up with Kevin Lata, former campaign manager for Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), described as “the first Gen Z member of Congress” by CBS.
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1689231551853150208?s=20
The Washington Post said the Hogg-Lata team hopes to raise money to help “elect progressive candidates who they say could help fight a far-right agenda.” Clearly revealing their political preferences, Hogg and Lata told the WaPo they will not be supporting candidates who challenge Democrat incumbents, instead working to fill vacancies in blue districts with “progressive” candidates with an eye on eventually flipping red states to blue. So, only young would-be political leaders who lean liberal will get support. Conservatives evidently aren’t welcome.
Hogg told CBS, “There’s so many charismatic, brilliant young people that have come from March For Our Lives and have now started running for office…and there’s so many more that I think can come. That’s why I’m doing this, it’s to help build that pathway.”
Apparently, Hogg is not planning to personally run for office, only to work on getting other people to run. According to NPR, Hogg said he and Lata are “looking for candidates that represent our generation, not just demographically, but also ideologically.”
But what sort of life experience do any of these “charismatic, brilliant young people” bring to the table beyond a shared ideology?
Lata told NBC News, “A big part of this … is electing young people that have the values of our generation, that understand the anxiety of not knowing if you’re going to be able to survive math class.”
Perhaps the “values” Hogg and Lata are looking for are anxiety and paranoia about guns.
What is explained by the WaPo story is Hogg’s desire to gradually shift power in several states by helping elect “progressives” so that, in the next decade or a little longer, “these states would be Democratic-controlled.” Translation: Anti-gunners will be in charge and their agenda is to erode the Second Amendment. Two states apparently in the crosshairs are Florida and Texas.
NBC News also revealed the names of some of their advisors, described as “a diverse group of young, progressive elected officials including Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., Frost and Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, who was briefly expelled from the legislature for leading a protest in favor of gun control onto the state House floor earlier this year.” Here’s a full list:
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1689429371604406272?s=20
It does not require much imagination to understand where this movement will be headed. Also, it should be noted how NBC describes Hogg: a “gun safety advocate.” At least other news reports have more accurately described him as a “gun control activist.”
By helping elect these “young progressives” now, they hope—as NBC’s story observed—it will “ensure those same people remain in office and run for higher office in the decades to come.” They may have a new movement, but at its core is the same old political strategy which has given the country the likes of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders; career politicians who have made a living trying to tell everyone else how to live.
They are also asking supporters to donate at least $10 a month to help build a political warchest. Hogg’s “new” political movement has the same old core requirement: Money. Hogg may be selling his “Leaders We Deserve” as the future of politics, but right out of the gate, the fuel which will drive his movement isn’t just ideology, it is also cash, and that’s what has been guiding politics for generations.
Hogg and Lata are just putting a new label on it.
About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
Hogg making his living exploiting the deaths of kids is as sick as the act itself was.
that would not surprise me one bit ,it is the demoncrap way do no real work claim great things and steal as much as you can
did piglet help launch it or did he just jump on the bandwagon. he is almost as big of a liar as our current resident in the oval office.
hogg, the Anti-gunner that tells a story of how it was to be under fire in a classroom — YET! — he was not at school till all of the slaughter by a KNOWN MENTALLY DEFICIENT individual was over! he even told reporters; when I heard of the incident, I got on my bike and peddled as fast as I could to get to the school. All this is coming from the “son of an ex-fbi” employee.
What a sleazy way to make a living. If it wasn’t for the harm he causes, I wouldn’t care.
Hogg (father an FBI agent) was part of the Eric Holder’s ‘we’ve got to change the way people think about guns’ agenda. False Flag shooting using sociocultural interception MK Ultra Mind control predictive programming. FF’s are cheating & not going to engage in any conversation that can’t discern what or figure out what a FF is used for political fodder.
Mr. Hogg (spit) has aspirations of being the John Kerry of the Anti 2A movement and make no mistake. Regardless of what you think about him. He has his zealots and sycophants. Now he is maneuvering for the BIG $$$. Once he has that. He will only grow in popularity among the mindless children of the Interweb. Who are controlled by their feelings and the indoctrination of the Liberal/Progressive Indoctrination system. Formally known as Public Education. He will be Our children’s children, as well as their children’s biggest threat against their Constitutional Rights. The current leaders of the movement have… Read more »
The only influencing he/they will do is to the dumbed down, can’t think for themselves sheeple. Anyone with half a brain will be influenced to vote 180 degrees from their ideologies.
Any one who advocates for thwarting the rights of others, regardless of how they do it, is no less despicable than…
I’ve read that men find women with a chin that has a more angular shape more attractive than women with a chin having a more squared off shape. Supposedly the more angular chin is a sign of a higher estrogen level.
Now take a closer look at Hoglett.
One can only wonder what Hoglett’s preferred pronouns are.