As progressives notch win after win in Democratic primaries, the 26-year-old activist said it shows that the party "didn’t lose Gen Z; they just needed candidates to vote for."

Just over a year ago, David Hogg, then the newly-minted vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, found himself unceremoniously pushed out after he called on the party to back primary challengers to unseat members of a moribund establishment.

Now, as progressives notch victory after victory against the party’s conservative old guard and are once again galvanizing young voters thought to have been lost, the 26-year-old reformer says it proves he was right all along.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    31·
    5 days ago

    I wish moderate libs would understand that the demsocs are helping to move the Overton window further left, which is a good thing because it’s moved way too far to the right due to the ratchet effect. I mean, Jesus, do libs not know how to negotiate? You know compromise will be necessary, so start left of the position you want to end up at. You start at democratic socialism but you end up at a relatively modest, European style social democracy. If that’s too far left for you, well, you might as well just cut the crap and join the Republican party now.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      The party is lead by people who would be Republicans if they happened to live in a red state. They don’t actually believe in anything. They just seek power. People like this become Republicans in red states and Democrats in blue states. Centrist wafflers in purple states.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Why would moderate libs car about “going left.” They want to support the “just world” they grew up in and ensure they are never made uncomfortable.

    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
      35·
      4 days ago

      EEU social democracy is dying quickly too. It did not work. There is no left. Ever since the Reagan and the fall of the USSR and the “third way”, the so called left does not believe in anything any more. Only power for themselves and taking certain positions to get elected.

      History is full of examples of democratic socialists getting slaughtered, literally. The US is responsible for much of it. The plutocrats are definitely going to try to kill them or put them in camps.