Hoggwash: The DNC is Doing That Thing Again
By Sable Rook
Published on MisinformationSucks.com
(Both Michael K. Portney and I donated $100 to David Hogg. This is why.)
There are two types of people the Democratic Party fears most: Republicans with a spine, and Democrats with ideas. The former they know how to demonize. The latter? They crucify.
Which brings us to David Hogg.
You might know him as the Parkland survivor turned gun reform advocate. You might know him from his time dragging Fox News anchors on live television or from his Harvard acceptance letter that made half of MAGA Twitter start frothing with conspiracy theories about "liberal grooming." But now, David Hogg is something else. Something more dangerous.
He's a Democrat with teeth.
And that’s a problem for a party that prefers its young progressives like it prefers its voter base: passive, polite, and perpetually fundraising.
So when Hogg had the gall—the unthinkable gall—to suggest that Democrats who aren't working for the people should be primaried? They began sharpening the knives. Word started leaking out: DNC operatives, blue check loyalists, and donor-class marionettes quietly lobbying to get him pushed out of decision-making roles. The same old quiet purge. Dissent must be managed. Branded. Expelled.
Mike Portney and I each sent Hogg $100 not because it’s a radical act, but because it’s the absolute least we could do. And this blog is my reckoning. A dissection. A flaming torch for what’s left of the bridge the Democratic establishment is trying to burn.
The Ghost of 2016 Still Haunts
The Democratic Party has learned absolutely nothing from 2016—and I say that with the despair of someone who used to hope it would.
Remember what happened the last time a young, charismatic political outsider with a passionate base and an anti-establishment message tried to operate within the Democratic Party?
They nuked Bernie from orbit. Twice.
The playbook was simple:
Smear him with surrogates
Weaponize the media narrative
Quietly shift superdelegate math
Invoke “electability” like it was gospel
And then they wondered why voters stayed home. Why disaffected progressives turned off. Why “lesser evil” politics isn’t enough to drag people off their couches after a ten-hour shift at Amazon just to vote for the status quo wrapped in blue packaging.
Now they’re trying the same move with David Hogg.
You’d think a party that claims to defend democracy would embrace primary challenges. But no. They treat them like insurrection-lite. They view any deviation from the top-down, donor-sanctioned script as heresy. And when someone like Hogg dares to point out the emperor has no clothes, their first instinct is to cancel his backstage pass.
Why David Hogg Terrifies Them
David Hogg is not perfect. He’s not polished like a think tank intern. He tweets like a real person, not a pre-briefed staffer. He says things that make boomers clutch their pearls and pundits reach for their thesauruses.
But he understands the game.
He knows that the real war isn’t just against the GOP. It’s against complacency, compromise, and careerism masquerading as moderation. Hogg is part of a post-Obama generation that has zero patience for party gatekeepers who think charisma is dangerous and organizing is optional.
He calls out performative allyship.
He drags corporate Dems who vote with Republicans on military budgets and then gaslight you into thinking they’re “fighting for the people.”
He supports primary challenges not because he wants chaos, but because he understands power: if there’s no threat of being replaced, then there’s no reason for them to serve you.
He has one foot in the system and one foot still outside it—and that’s exactly the kind of dual-awareness that built revolutions.
So the establishment must neutralize him. Not because he’s wrong, but because he’s right too loudly.
The Purge Is Always Quiet, Always Strategic
If you want to understand how the Democratic Party marginalizes dissent, you have to stop looking for fireworks. They don’t assassinate your character in public. They ghost you in private.
They pull your invites.
They “forget” to fund your initiatives.
They leak poison to the press about how you’re “difficult,” “immature,” “not aligned with the broader strategy.”
Suddenly you’re not on the Zoom calls anymore. Suddenly you’re not “on message.” Suddenly your nonprofit isn’t getting that partnership that was promised last quarter.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is textbook narrative control. And it’s happening to Hogg right now.
The DNC is acting like a Vatican for centrists. And David Hogg is their Martin Luther. He posted the 95 Theses on Twitter and now they’re building the bonfire.
What’s At Stake: The Illusion of Unity
If unity means silence, it’s not unity. It’s control.
The party elites love to scold the left every election cycle. “Now’s not the time for division,” they say. “We have to unite to beat the GOP.” But what they mean is: shut up and clap. Be grateful we’re not Trump. Ignore the drone strikes and the corporate bailouts and the bipartisan assault on privacy and civil liberties. Don’t mention the donors behind the curtain.
David Hogg’s sin wasn’t being radical. It was refusing to play dumb.
He looked at the mediocre corporate Democrats coasting in safe seats and asked the obvious question: Why the hell aren’t we running someone better?
This is not a betrayal of the party. It’s a lifeline.
You want the youth vote? Give them a candidate who doesn’t talk like a bank lobbyist.
You want energy? Stop stapling it to committees until it suffocates.
You want democracy? Stop treating primaries like a threat.
The DNC is so terrified of another Bernie moment that it’s trying to preemptively neuter every rising figure who might expose how stale the brand has become. But here’s the truth: it’s already stale. You can’t stop the rot by yelling at the mold.
The “Good Democrat” Trap
This is the script they want Hogg to read from:
Smile for the camera.
Stick to safe talking points.
Trash Republicans, but never mention Dems who vote like them.
Fundraise relentlessly.
Never, ever suggest that the system needs more than a tune-up.
It’s the “good Democrat” script.
It’s the Kamala Harris script.
The Pete Buttigieg script.
The Andy Beshear script.
Polite. Bland. Internally managed.
But David Hogg isn’t interested in polite decline. He’s trying to sound the alarm, and instead of listening, they’re unplugging the speaker.
What Happens If They Win?
If the party succeeds in sidelining David Hogg, they won’t just lose him. They’ll lose an entire generation of voters who were already hanging by a thread. People who are sick of performative politics. People who see through the bipartisan rot and don’t want to wait another 40 years for a living wage, climate action, or a demilitarized police state.
You want a January 6th from the left? This is how you start it—not with a militia, but with a movement abandoned by its supposed allies.
You don’t have to like David Hogg. But you should fear what his exile represents: a party that is pathologically addicted to self-sabotage.
The GOP rewards its extremists with airtime.
The Democrats excommunicate their visionaries.
Why I Gave Him $100 (And Why You Should Too)
I don’t have a PAC. I don’t have a Super Bowl ad budget. What I have is clarity: David Hogg is the canary in the coal mine.
You can mock his Twitter feed or nitpick his interviews—but understand that if the DNC succeeds in driving him out, they’re not just silencing a person. They’re silencing a warning. They’re declaring that no amount of youth outrage, survivor credibility, or activist energy will ever be enough to earn a seat at the table unless it’s pre-approved by donors.
That’s not democracy. That’s managed decline.
I sent $100 not because I agree with everything he says, but because I believe we need people inside the machine who are still willing to break glass.
Mike Portney sent $100 for the same reason—and he doesn’t hand out endorsements like Halloween candy. He sees what I see: this isn’t just about Hogg. It’s about whether the Democratic Party has any room left for people who still give a damn.
Final Thought: Either Evolve or Be Replaced
The Democratic Party is at war with itself. The centrists think the progressives are children. The progressives think the centrists are cowards. The truth is, they’re both right—about each other.
And while they bicker over messaging, the world is burning. Rights are vanishing. Billionaires are buying your future wholesale. And the only people with the courage to yell “Fire!” in a room full of smoke are being asked to leave the building.
David Hogg is not your enemy. He’s your fire alarm.
And if the Democrats keep ripping out the batteries every time someone dares to call out the smoke, don’t be surprised when the whole house goes up in flames.
So here’s your choice:
Do you want a party of managed decline?
Or do you want a movement that grows teeth?
I know where my $100 went.
Do you?
Written by Sable Rook
Investigative provocateur. Narrative saboteur. Misinformation’s worst nightmare.
In partnership with Mike Portney, who also gave $100 to the last person in the DNC with the guts to tell the truth.
