David Hogg’s grift is a warning about all – Latest News
Young Democratic “reformer” David Hogg seems to have realized a factor or two from the institution he damns.
The lefty activist has parlayed his presence on the grisly 2018 Parkland, Fla. high-school mass taking pictures into prominence as a gun-control activist, then a Harvard degree and at last a good little area of interest for himself within the wild, wild world of Washington, DC.
He even briefly served on the Democratic National Committee (warning Dems to give up ragging on younger males who simply wish to “get laid” and “have fun”).
Two years back, he created the political motion committee Leaders We Deserve, vowing it will establish and elect progressive “trailblazers” to “challenge the status quo.”
Hence his promise in April to spend $20 million to main incumbent Democrats (a vow that obtained him ousted from the DNC),
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Oops: So far, Leaders We Deserve has spent much less on discovering “leaders” and more on the marketing itself and enriching DC swamp creatures.
Campaign finance information show that the PAC spent solely about $455,000 on candidates, and two of three obtained creamed.
The one success was Gotham’s own Zohran Mamdani, who pulled in about $300,000 of the PAC’s $455,000 in candidate spending, however raised thousands and thousands elsewhere so didn’t actually need Hogg’s help.
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Meanwhile, Leaders We Deserve blew $2.5 million on consultants, $1.1 million on its own digital advertisements, $965,000 on donor lists and practically $5,000 on a fitness class subscription.
Nothing says “challenging the status quo” like utilizing donor money for Pilates.
Hogg is hardly the primary to, nicely, stay high on the hog by figuring out a message that resonates broadly after which raking within the money.
Washington is a frothing ecosystem of influencers, lobbyists, consultants, politicians, organizers, and so on., paying and billing one another within the title of higher causes.
Every technology brings forth new crusaders in opposition to this beast, solely for a lot of or most to go native.
It doesn’t imply reform isn’t badly needed (it is!), however fairly that you just need to observe the money — not the rhetoric.
