David Hogg

And nobody mentioned Gaza when they were talking about young voters.

So I said, I know you guys don't want to talk about this,

But if you're going to talk about why we lost young voters, you're going to have to talk about what happened in Gaza and the atrocities that were going on there that turned off many young voters.

And to my surprise, everybody's response in the room was no, David, no, no, no.

We absolutely do and should need to talk about that.

and then clearly they were too scared to put that into the report or anything of substance into the report that actually was the driving result of the election in the first place and that's what really pissed me off right we are in a position right now where this was a opportunity for the dnc to show voters that we are turning a corner as a party that we are actually holding ourselves accountable and we're not just going to continue letting people like mike donnellan

make $4 million off of losing elections that we're gonna keep hiring the same consultants that we're gonna keep hiring the same people over and over and over again, that repeatedly fail over and over and over.

And yet that is exactly what this report does.

It proves that the establishment is effectively dead

and that this is an incumbent protection racket.

This entire town is focused not on winning elections for Democrats in DC, it is focused on keeping the same people in power, even if that means it keeps us in the minority.

And it is beyond time that we go beyond this and we bring in fresh blood into our party that actually does hold ourselves accountable and doesn't just say, you know what?

uh our entire guiding philosophy as a party is to do whatever off the fewest people within the establishment or whatever pisses off the fewest donors because guess what jen we're getting the worst of both worlds where we're both pissing people off and not fundraising at the same time the dnc is three million dollars in debt as the rnc has a hundred million dollars what the hell are we doing here how much longer are we going to let this continue there is so much more risk in letting

ken martin stay there as chair of the dnc than there is in finding someone new

It's absolutely unbelievable.

And what's crazy is I can tell you, you know, I find myself in an interesting position of both working on the outside and shaking up the establishment, you know, supporting challengers like Mai Vang against Doris Matsui, who took a max out check from APAC.

and so many others, and also being on the inside in DC and having to figure out how do we actually get better people elected in the first place and take back the house.

And I can tell you on the inside, what they'll say is, well, we have to take this corporate money because Republicans are taking that money.

And I say to them, maybe if you didn't vote for such shitty policies that's in favor of those corporations, you wouldn't have to spend so much goddamn money gaslighting voters into believing that you were for the working class because you would actually be voting in their favor.

and it just doesn't break through to them.