{"id":2400674,"date":"2025-02-08T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-hogg-shows-how-little-he-knows-with-apparent-demand-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:51:05","slug":"david-hogg-shows-how-little-he-knows-with-apparent-demand-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-hogg-shows-how-little-he-knows-with-apparent-demand-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hogg Shows How Little He Knows with Apparent Demand to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdavid-hogg-shows-how-little-he-knows-with-apparent-demand-to-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2400674&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses David\u200c Hogg, a prominent gun control \u2064activist\u2062 and\u200d the recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackrocks-hildebrand-reportedly-taking-part-in-ubs-credit-suisse-talks\/\" title=\"BlackRock\u2019s Hildebrand reportedly taking part in UBS, Credit Suisse talks\">elected vice chair<\/a> of \u200bthe Democratic National Committee (DNC). It highlights the\u200b challenges faced by a Mediaite writer tasked with compiling Hogg&#8217;s \u200cmost outrageous tweets,suggesting it would be easier to\u200d list his saner comments. The piece criticizes Hogg for being politically toxic and radical, \u2064noting that he previously claimed he would \u200bnot <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">seek political office due<\/a> to his views.\u200b Despite this,he ended up \u200din a high-profile position \u2062within \u200bthe DNC after\u2063 the party&#8217;s recent leftward \u2063shift.<\/p>\n<p>The article \u200dalso points out hogg&#8217;s controversial\u2062 remarks, including a\u200b tweet demanding that President Trump fire Department of Government Efficiency chair Elon Musk and replace\u2063 him with Pete Buttigieg, the\u200d former Transportation \u200dSecretary. The piece mocks Hogg&#8217;s misunderstanding of political positions and qualifications, emphasizing that Musk is not in the role Hogg \u2063believes\u200b he is. The \u2063overall\u200d tone is critical,\u2062 portraying Hogg as emblematic of the DNC&#8217;s disconnect with mainstream American sentiments and raising concerns about the party&#8217;s future in appealing to\u200c younger voters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, an unfortunate writer for Mediaite was given the Herculean task of going through David Hogg&rsquo;s social media history and finding his most outr&eacute; remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ranking the New DNC Vice Chair&rsquo;s Most Insane Tweets,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/opinion\/ranking-the-new-dnc-vice-chairs-most-insane-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline<\/a> read. Poor Charlie Nash, the writer of that article. He would have had an easier time if he ranked Hogg&rsquo;s <em>sanest<\/em> tweets; those couldn&rsquo;t have totaled in the double digits.<\/p>\n<p>Hogg, in case you haven&rsquo;t been following political arcana this past week, is object lesson No. 1 that the Democrats have learned nothing from 2024. After surviving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/flashback-creepy-david-hogg-interview-people-thought-crisis-actor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parkland high school shooting<\/a> in Florida in 2018, Hogg became a vocal activist for gun control.<\/p>\n<p>At first, naturally, one&rsquo;s sympathies were with the young man, no matter what his views were &mdash; but it quickly became clear that, as a lasting political voice in our great national debate, he was astonishingly unbalanced, uniformly angry in a uniquely off-putting way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/looks-like-david-hoggs-mypillow-rival-going-nowhere-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and self-aggrandizing<\/a> to a level conspicuous even for individuals in the American political sphere. (That last part is saying something indeed.)<\/p>\n<p>So naturally, in need of a change after being rejected by American voters for drifting hard left during the 2024 cycle, the Democratic National Committee voted him their vice chair.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>At least Hogg is consistent with the Democrat ethos in one way: He swore he&rsquo;d never seek the power he eventually sought.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m one of the most politically toxic people in the country and I&rsquo;m too radical for American politics. No, I&rsquo;m not running for office,&rdquo; he said in one of those insane tweets we were just discussing, back in 2022. &ldquo;We have enough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-rogan-warns-woke-mob-will-make-it-so-straight-white-men-wont-be-allowed-to-talk-go-outside\/\" title=\"Joe Rogan Warns: Woke Mob Will Make It So \u2018Straight White Men\u2019 Won\u2019t Be \u2018Allowed To Talk,\u2019 \u2018Go Outside\u2019\">straight white men<\/a> in power. It&rsquo;d be nice to see some people who actually look like our country and not privilege.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&rsquo;m one of the most politically toxic people in the country and I&rsquo;m too radical for American politics. No, I&rsquo;m not running for office.<\/p>\n<p>We have enough straight white men in power. It&rsquo;d be nice to see some people who actually look like our country and not privilege.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Hogg &#128999; (@davidhogg111) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidhogg111\/status\/1517578402320072710?\">April 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And now that he&rsquo;s rid himself of that shame of arrant white privilege, he&rsquo;s demanding President Donald Trump replace a qualified South African immigrant with an unqualified upper-class white Harvard graduate who worked at McKinsey.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds pretty bad, even for Democrats &mdash; until you realize we&rsquo;re talking about his demand that Trump fire Department of Government Efficiency chair Elon Musk and replace him with former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Then it sounds slightly better for Democrats and way worse and\/or more hilarious for Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>First, the post, which was occasioned by an accident on a Philadelphia-area commuter train:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fire Elon Musk and Bring him back now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tRqFEdSj4s\">https:\/\/t.co\/tRqFEdSj4s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/efbneojXaY\">pic.twitter.com\/efbneojXaY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Hogg &#128999; (@davidhogg111) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidhogg111\/status\/1887671615590433067?\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I didn&rsquo;t think it was possible to be wrong in so many ways in so few words, but let&rsquo;s suss them out, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>First, David Hogg cannot fire anyone but himself, and presumably a few token staffers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrats-already-regretting-david-hogg-selected-dnc-vice-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the DNC lets him have<\/a>. The DNC may be stupid, but it&rsquo;s not&nbsp;<em>that<\/em> stupid, and while letting the malaprop-prone 24-year-old take a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-dodd-frank-bailout-defender-for-federal-reserve-post\/\" title=\"Biden Taps Dodd-Frank Bailout Defender for Federal Reserve Post\">vice chair position<\/a> was a bad move, they&rsquo;re not about to hand him the reins to anything other than another 15 minutes of fame.<\/p>\n<p>As for pressuring him to fire anyone in the Trump administration, Hogg also has no control over that. Not only is he not in a position of oversight, pretty much every Republican who follows Hogg&rsquo;s missives does so because they realize that, by doing the diametrical opposite, they&rsquo;re likely making the correct move.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, if anyone&rsquo;s to blame for this, it&rsquo;s Buttigieg himself.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the Trump administration has only been in power since Jan. 20, 2025. Buttigieg was confirmed by the Senate as Joe Biden&rsquo;s Transportation secretary in February of 2021 and held that position until the end of Biden&rsquo;s term.<\/p>\n<p>His qualifications for this, before he took the gig, were that he loved the choo-choos &mdash; although not enough that, when a train filled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-tries-to-explain-turning-down-fema-relief-to-east-palestine\/\" title=\"White House Tries to Explain Turning Down FEMA Relief to East Palestine\">toxic chemicals derailed<\/a> in East Palestine, Ohio, he saw fit to visit until<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pete-buttigieg-forced-wait-hallway-east-palestine-mayor-spoke-rudy-giuliani-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> well after<\/a> it would have been useful.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, whatever could have been done at the governmental level to keep the SEPTA train in question from catching on fire en route from Philadelphia to Wilmington, Delaware, it should have been done under Buttigieg&rsquo;s watch. (For what it&rsquo;s worth, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/septa-train-goes-flames-ridley-park-delaware-county-350-passengers-evacuated\/15874537\/?ex_cid=TA_WPVI_TW&amp;taid=67a551eb88e6430001b657b4&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem_manual&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPVI-TV<\/a>, no one out of the roughly 350 passengers on board was injured.)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, furthermore squared:&nbsp;<em>Elon Musk is not the Transportation secretary, you incompetent fool<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That role is being filled by former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy. You may have seen him recently, even if you&rsquo;re not a transportation buff, because he&rsquo;s been the face of the administration after the crash of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-right-obama-faa-policy-penalized-high-aptitude-applicants-even-chicago-tribune-worried-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Eagle Flight 5342<\/a> and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport just outside of Washington, D.C. &mdash; the first mid-air collision involving an airliner in U.S. airspace since 1986, which claimed 67 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, if there was ever a time when an average 24-year-old &mdash; not one that&rsquo;s even interested in politics, mind you, and certainly not one that just got elected vice chair of the Democratic National Committee &mdash; would know who the Transportation secretary was, or at least that it wasn&rsquo;t Elon Musk, this would be the week.<\/p>\n<p>But, as we can all admit, Elon Musk definitely would be a poor pick for Transportation secretary, what with his lack of background in aviation and &hellip; oh, wait.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good luck with that. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4m7gz7GH9I\">pic.twitter.com\/4m7gz7GH9I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1887751203758743680?\">February 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Democrats, I speak to you specifically, since I think pretty much everything about Hogg&rsquo;s post &mdash; and his past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-gun-control-activist-david-hogg-torched-ccp-survivor-go-china-see-gun-control-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">history of witless activism<\/a> &mdash; has induced summary judgment in independents and Republicans: This is the man that your party believes will help them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/time-hard-reflection-need-start-cutting-entitlements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recapture the youth vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you not yet satisfied, left-of-center folk, that your party is so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/beautiful-joy-reid-melts-msnbc-becomes-clear-trump-will-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adrift in its own bubble<\/a> that it cannot fathom how wrong things have gone for it?<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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The article was titled &#8220;Ranking the New DNC Vice Chair\u2019s Most Insane Tweets.&#8221; Charlie Nash, the author, would have found it simpler to list Hogg&#8217;s sanest tweets, which likely wouldn&#8217;t even reach double digits. For those unaware, Hogg is a prime example of how the Democrats seem to have learned nothing from 2024. After surviving the Parkland school shooting in Florida in 2018, he became an outspoken advocate for gun control. Initially, many sympathized with him regardless of his views; however, it soon became evident that he was remarkably unhinged and consistently angry in an off-putting manner while also being self-promoting to an extreme degree\u2014something quite notable even within American politics. Consequently, after being rejected by voters for veering too far left during the 2024 election cycle, he was elected as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Hogg has remained true to one aspect of Democratic values: he previously claimed he would never pursue political power despite now holding a significant position. In one of his erratic tweets from 2022, he stated: \u201cI\u2019m one of the most politically toxic people in the country and I\u2019m too radical for American politics&#8230; We have enough straight white men in power.\u201d Now that he&#8217;s shed any shame associated with privilege, he&#8217;s calling on President Trump to replace a qualified South African immigrant with an unqualified upper-class white Harvard graduate who worked at McKinsey\u2014specifically demanding Trump fire Department chair Elon Musk and appoint former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg instead.<\/p>\n<p>This demand arose following an incident involving a commuter train near Philadelphia. However, it&#8217;s clear that Hogg lacks authority over such decisions; he can only fire himself or perhaps some token staffers allowed by the DNC. While they may be misguided at times (like appointing someone like him), they aren&#8217;t foolish enough to give him real power over anything substantial.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, pressuring anyone within Trump&#8217;s administration is beyond Hogg&#8217;s capabilities since Republicans often act contrary to his suggestions simply because they believe doing so is more prudent. If anyone should be held accountable for issues related to transportation safety during Buttigieg\u2019s tenure as Transportation Secretary under Biden\u2014which lasted until January 20th when Trump took office\u2014it should be Buttigieg himself.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly\u2014and this is crucial\u2014Elon Musk does not hold that position; it\u2019s currently occupied by former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy who has been prominently involved following recent aviation incidents including mid-air collisions resulting in tragic losses.<\/p>\n<p>In summary: David Hogg represents everything wrong with how Democrats perceive their chances among younger voters today\u2014are they truly oblivious about how disconnected they&#8217;ve become?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2400675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Michael-Featured-Image-2025-02-08T092117.192.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[46257,16596,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2400674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-david-hogg","tag-gun-control","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Michael-Featured-Image-2025-02-08T092117.192.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400678,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400674\/revisions\/2400678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}