{"id":2434054,"date":"2025-05-13T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dnc-removing-david-hogg-is-out-of-soviet-playbook-joe-concha-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:45:43","slug":"dnc-removing-david-hogg-is-out-of-soviet-playbook-joe-concha-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dnc-removing-david-hogg-is-out-of-soviet-playbook-joe-concha-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC removing David Hogg is out of \u2018Soviet playbook\u2019: Joe Concha &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fdnc-removing-david-hogg-is-out-of-soviet-playbook-joe-concha-washington-examiner%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=2434054&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>In a recent commentary by Joe Concha in the *Washington Examiner*, he discusses the potential ousting of David Hogg, Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), characterizing the move as reminiscent of tactics from a &#8220;Soviet playbook.&#8221; Hogg, who was elected to his position in February, claims that the DNC is attempting to fast-track his removal due to his reform initiatives aimed at introducing younger candidates into the party. Concha expresses his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-rights-are-all-based-on-coercion\/\" title=\"Woke \u2018Rights\u2019 Are All Based On Coercion\">long-standing belief<\/a> that Hogg was a poor choice for the role, yet critiques the DNC&#8217;s approach to addressing dissatisfaction within its ranks, arguing that the party&#8217;s actions contradict its stated commitment to democracy. He also draws attention to broader issues within the Democratic Party, including its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-flips-iowa-state-house-seat-held-by-democrats-for-decades\/\" title=\"Republican Flips Iowa State House Seat Held By Democrats For Decades\">low approval ratings<\/a> and internal conflicts regarding leadership diversity. Additionally, Concha comments on Hollywood&#8217;s recent outreach to former President Trump for tax cuts, highlighting the irony given the entertainment industry&#8217;s previous criticism of him.  <\/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\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">DNC removing David Hogg is out of &lsquo;Soviet playbook&rsquo;: Joe Concha<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2119951\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Concha<\/a> said an apparent effort to oust <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-national-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Democratic National Committee<\/a> Vice Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/david-hogg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">David Hogg<\/a> is straight out of the &ldquo;Soviet playbook,&rdquo; for attempting to take down a prominent face within its own party.<\/p>\n<p>Hogg, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3307825\/david-hogg-wins-election-vice-chair-dnc\/\" title=\"\">elected to the role<\/a> in February, has now accused the committee of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3409043\/david-hogg-dnc-removed-vice-chairman-democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">trying to fast-track his removal as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economists-push-for-another-round-of-stimulus-checks\/\" title=\"Economists Push for Another Round of Stimulus Checks\">vice chairman<\/a><\/a>. He claimed this is because of his efforts to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/daveweigel\/status\/1922076728983257414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">reform the party<\/a>,&rdquo; including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3381777\/dnc-vice-chair-david-hogg-20-million-initiative-younger-primary-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">bringing in younger candidates<\/a>. While Concha, a senior writer for the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, said he always felt that Hogg was a &ldquo;horrible choice&rdquo; for DNC vice chairman, he added that this flies in the face of the party&rsquo;s advocacy to support democracy, and that the &ldquo;cowardly&rdquo; move is not how to address dissatisfaction with Hogg.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3409252\/pope-leo-xiv-trump-could-be-bumps-not-woke\/\">Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s brother says there could be &#8216;bumps&#8217; with Trump but dismisses idea of &#8216;woke&#8217; pope<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/3409246\/apple-siri-lawsuit-settlement-95-million-eavesdropping\/\">Apple users can file claim in $95 million in&nbsp;Siri eavesdropping lawsuit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3409216\/white-house-biden-health-lied-press-cabinet-congress-election-jake-tapper\/\">White House lied to press, Cabinet, Congress about Biden &#8216;deteriorating&#8217; until after election: Jake Tapper<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Remember, they installed Kamala Harris as the nominee without one vote from the public, and now this ridiculous &mdash; it was like, &lsquo;ok, can we get a do-over?&rsquo; after David Hogg wasn&rsquo;t saying some of the things that they wanted to hear as a party,&rdquo; Concha said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Fox &amp; Friends First<\/em>. &ldquo;And apparently, Todd and Carley, he was removed due to a violation of Democratic Party rules requiring quote &lsquo;gender diversity for party officers,&rsquo; unquote. In other words, don&rsquo;t choose the best candidate, a bunch of boxes have to be checked off in the name of unhinged wokism.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2932676&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=0620379a8b3925bbcf10b6e475a3fb0a\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Concha added that this in-party turmoil is playing a role in the Democrats&rsquo; 21% approval rating. He also mocked how the party&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >calling card&#038;rdquo<\/a>; is to &ldquo;save democracy&rdquo; when it is not practicing democracy itself in its attempt to remove Hogg.<\/p>\n<p>Concha also gave his take on Hollywood leaders asking President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> for tax cuts, though their letter did not mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3400585\/trump-slaps-tariff-on-foreign-made-films\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the 100% tariffs that Trump has proposed<\/a>. Concha assessed how this move by Hollywood marks the latest chapter in a world turned &ldquo;upside down.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3408123\/bill-maher-elissa-slotkin-weak-democrats-indulge-nonsense-young-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">MAHER SLAMS &lsquo;WEAK&rsquo; DEMOCRATS THAT &lsquo;INDULGE ALL SORTS OF NONSENSE&rsquo; FROM YOUNG VOTERS&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned it was &ldquo;funny&rdquo; how &ldquo;tone-deaf&rdquo; it was that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250512-Letter-to-President-Trump-re-Film-and-Television-Industry-Reconciliation-Priorities_FINAL58803429.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hollywood leaders were asking Trump for help<\/a> and cited how so many people in Hollywood had advocated against the president in the past. However, he suggested that this call for help is not the best look considering how the rest of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">California<\/a> is still seeing its cost of living go up, suggesting that entertainment industry leaders are &ldquo;the last people that deserve it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Actors Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone were among the signees in Hollywood&rsquo;s letter to Trump. In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3289905\/trump-recruits-gibson-stallone-voight-hollywood-envoys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump announced that he was recruiting the two movie stars, along with actor Mel Gibson<\/a>, to bring about a new &ldquo;Golden Age&rdquo; in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2119951\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2119951\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC&#8217;s move to remove David Hogg mirrors &#8216;Soviet tactics&#8217;: Joe Concha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2434055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/David-Hogg-removed-DNC-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[46257,7705,52093,55139,32076],"class_list":["post-2434054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-david-hogg","tag-dnc","tag-joe-concha","tag-soviet-playbook","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/David-Hogg-removed-DNC-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434054","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434058,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434054\/revisions\/2434058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2434055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}