The Democratic Party would rather silence critics like Hogg than fix its own rot. Their reliance on Black Misleaders to do the dirty work exposes once again that the Democrats care more about power than progress.
When David Hogg announced that he would actively seek to challenge certain House Democrat incumbents during the 2026 primary election cycle, responses ranged from support, to shock, to chagrin. Making Hogg’s proclamation to, “replace asleep at the wheel Democrats,” even more controversial is that it was announced just months after he was elected as a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the executive arm of the Democrat party. Hogg also expressed his intention to raise $20 million through his Leaders we Deserve group to challenge incumbent Democrats who hold “safe seats” as part of his overarching mechanism to establish a new generation of Democrat Party leaders.
I give Mr. Hogg props for his temerity as it’s clear the current base of Democrat party leadership has exposed itself as the antithesis of a proper opposition party. Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer exemplified this most recently when he not only capitulated to President Trump, but also mustered enough senate Democrats to deliver the requisite number of votes to hand the president a continuing budget resolution victory that essentially amounts to a blank check and red carpet rollout to continue his policy agenda. But more so than props, I must extend gratitude to Mr. Hogg as his actions have provided another great elucidation of the Democrat party’s grand tartuffery that commenced almost immediately after his intraparty insurgency.
Last month, newly elected DNC Chairman, Ken Martin, reacted to Hogg’s announcement with a series of statements that can only be characterized as a cauldron of contradictions that both vindicate Mr. Hogg’s aspirations and reveal the insidious nature of the Democrat party’s modus operandi. For instance, Mr. Martin, in response to Hogg, noted, “If you want to challenge incumbents, you’re more than free to do that, but just not as an officer of the DNC, because our job is to be neutral arbiters,” he continued, “We can’t be both the referee and also the player at the same time. You have to make a decision.” This is quite a revelation or, at the very least, an ostensible shift in policy as the Democrats didn't act as players and referees contemporaneously as much as they changed the game entirely while it was being played in 2016 when the malfeasance against Bernie Sanders was so profound that then DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, who was caught in the act of tipping the primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton, had to be quarantined from the DNC convention in Philadelphia.
Adding to the Hogg pile on was Nebraska Democrat Party Chairwoman, Jane Kleeb, who was recently elevated to Martin’s previous position, President of the Association of State Democratic Committees. For her part, Kleeb sternly reminded Hogg, “We hope that he realizes that he got elected to be an officer of the DNC, which means that we remain neutral.” Kleeb added that many state parties prohibit “putting our thumb on the scale” during Democratic primaries. This coming from a Democrat party operative who was not only allegedly putting her thumb on the scale during a primary, but also dipping her toe into the waters of the opposing party when it was reported that she was in communication with a Republican mayoral candidate who was running against a Democrat. And, of course, neither Martin or Kleeb demonstrated any semblance of chagrin when the DNC refused to allow candidates challenging Biden during the 2024 primaries to even appear on the ballot in certain states.
But none of this should come as a surprise for a party that once, literally, asserted they have every right to favor one candidate over another despite any party rules since the DNC is a “private corporation.” To this end David Hogg is the latest individual to dissipate the opacity of the myriad derelictions ensconced in the DNA of the DNC…and he will likely pay a price for his insolence. In fact, in another example of the Democrats changing the rules whenever they like, be it during the game or well after it to arrive at the outcome of its liking, the DNC announced it would be voiding the result of a vote that elected Hogg as a DNC Vice Chairman citing “procedural concerns.” Nevermind that the charges of “procedural concerns” were brought by a DNC operative who lost her run to be a DNC Vice Chair, or that the charges were brought after Hogg’s announcement to primary incumbent Democrats - it’s all just a coincidence, right?
Time and time again when the Democrats can’t sell their charades to the larger public, a public that puts the approval rating of the party at an abysmal 27 percent, which is lower than Trump’s, they turn to their damage control ethos of “send in the clowns,” which in their case is actually, “send in the sellouts.” Enter the tactic of toxic identity reductionism.
Malcolm Kenyatta, a Black Democrat from Pennsylvania was also recently elected as a Vice Chair. But as far too many Black Democrats from the great Charles Barron to Jesse Jackson know all too well, what the Democrats give to the negroes, they can and will quickly take away. Due to the “procedural concerns” that will likely cost Hogg his Vice Chair role, Kenyatta will likely lose his. You’d think that this would cause Kenyatta to establish camaraderie with Hogg, but think again - this is the Democrat party after all, and their alabaster puppet masters have an uncanny ability to keep their negroes in line, even when they are seemingly in the midst of being subjected to demonstrable injustices.
For his part, Kenyatta did not only accept being a fall guy in the malaise of DNC vindictiveness, but he also seems happy to act as one of their attack dogs. While acknowledging that he was “frustrated” that the DNC will be holding new Vice Chair elections, in the same breath he went as far to challenge Hogg’s veracity insinuating, “David has a very casual relationship with the truth.” But Kenyatta is not the only negro operative to jump on Hogg, the DNC called in plenty of reinforcements including some of the highest ranking officials in the party as well as some of their melanated talking heads.
When asked about Hogg’s plans, top House Negro, Hakeem Jeffries noted his opposition while retorting, “I look forward to standing behind every single Democratic incumbent, from the most progressive to the most centrist and all points in between.” Quite curious coming from a man who started a Political Action Committee (PAC,), Team Blue, with the expressed goal of challenging “progressive” Democrats like those who are members of the now all but defunct “Squad.” This on top of the fact that Jeffries is one of the largest recipients of AIPAC’s blood money, who consistently spend millions of dollars to target pro-Palestine Democrat incumbents like Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush who were both vanquished during the 2024 election cycle. For Jeffries it’s clear that selling out is much easier than selling abject hypocrisy.
And it doesn’t stop with Jeffries. In a recent interview with Hogg, Dem Negro Elder, Donna Brazile exemplified with negro doublespeak looks like in full force with some sprinkles of toxic identity politics to top it off. While offering measured praise for Hogg, Brazile also admonished him when quipping, “My position is many of these so-called safe blue seats, and I can get in trouble, many of them are seats that women and minorities finally had an opportunity to come and sit in because there were no seats at the table for us. So before you start wiping clean the menu and the plates and the seats, be very careful.” But where was Brazile when the aforementioned Bush and Bowman were subjected to a zionist funded primary challenge? And where was Brazile when the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) endorsed Ayanna Pressley’s, a Black woman, challenger who is a white man?
Brazile was also quite aloof when the same CBC endorsed Jamaal Bowman’s challenger, Elliot Engel - this after he was caught on a hot mic saying he would not care about speaking to police brutality against people of color if he wasn’t in a contested primary. The endorsement of Engel should be of note because it included that of James “Africanus” Clyburn who has also been entangled in Hogg-gate. After Clyburn declared that, “giving up his seat would mean giving up his life,” Hogg clapped back, “get over yourself…that seat is not yours, it’s your constituents’.” For this infraction, the DNC sent in one of their favorite Black hatchetmen, Bakari Sellers who referred to Hogg’s response to Clyburn as, “wild” and demanded more respect for Clyburn.
It’s clear that the Democrats and their negro sentries are paving a pathway to soon declare Hogg as someone who lacks racial sensitivity if not an outright racist to obfuscate the fact that the Democrats may know better than anyone else that they are unmoored, un-prinicipled, and unwilling to take the necessary steps to emancipate poor and working class people from the oligarchy they willingly assist with upholding.
To this end, perhaps the main critique of Mr. Hogg should be that he believes that there’s an actual opportunity to transform a party that perpetually demonstrates its intransigence and willingness to pull out all of the stops to remain in the clutches of its corporate and elite masters as well as its zionist overlords. Mr. Hogg would have done better to demonstrate a comprehension that it’s not so much that the Democrat Party is incapable of fostering a message and platform for true multi-racial and multi-ethnic class solidarity as much as it's simply irredeemable. Machinations are already in place that will force him to learn this lesson the hard way, as the Democrats will do all they can to deracinate any influence he has over the party and in general.
Yet the real question that remains is why so many Black people allow themselves to be useful idiots for a racist, capitalist party that continues to sell them down the river like their Democrat slave owners of the past. Until we provide the answers to this salient question and develop the mechanisms for a grand emancipation proclamation from the Democrats, Black people will continue to sell out like [Bakari] Sellers, hacking like Hakeem [Jeffries], and tap dance like Donna [Brazile]. I had the opportunity to speak to this with Black Agenda Report editor, Margaret Kimberly, that can be heard on my recent edition of Full Spectrum with Anthony Rogers-Wright.
No Compromise
No Retreat
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright is an international climate/environmental liberation and racial justice advocate and practitioner, a writer, and policy expert who resides in the United States with his family and mischievous cat, “Evil” Ernie. He is a proud and active member of the Black Alliance for Peace and Movement for Black Lives. His radio program, “Full Spectrum with Anthony Rogers-Wright” airs on the Mighty WPFW network every Tuesday at 6:00 PM EST.
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