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Chapter 1: What are the major criticisms of the DNC's 2024 Election Autopsy?
All right, joining me today on IHIP News is David Hogg, former DNC Vice Chair and President of the Leaders We Deserve. Of course, we are here today to talk about the utter breathtaking incompetence of Ken Martin, the DNC, and the autopsy. David, let it rip.
I mean, Jesus Christ, could we last election was defined more than anything by the fact of the incompetence of the previous administration only to then result in us having this whole, you know, Ken's whole thing was running on releasing this autopsy report. It's not like somebody forced him into this position. It was literally the thing that he ran on while he was running to be chair of the DNC.
only for him to release a report that is incomplete, incoherent, incompetent, and terrible overall. That doesn't mention Gaza wants, it doesn't mention inflation, it doesn't mention President Biden's age at all. And it is ridiculous that we continue to have people in the Democratic Party that continuously fail upwards. We need to actually hold people accountable
and make sure that we have proper leadership. The fact of the matter is, if we have a guy at the DNC that cannot even put together a report in a year and a half, how can we trust him to run the presidential primary?
I completely agree. It is humiliating. Anybody who cannot in this political climate where you have dipshit, incompetent, dementia-ridden criminals, dirty cops committing crimes, covering up for pedophiles, and our approval rating is at the same with our party as it is nationally with Republicans.
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Chapter 2: How does David Hogg assess the leadership of Ken Martin?
Ken Martin is an abject failure. He is representative of how Democrats wet the bed, crowdsource what they're supposed to believe in, and do not put fighters at the top of the ticket. I think Ken Martin needs to resign immediately. I think you should run for DNC chair. I am so sick of these lackluster, milquetoast Democrats. I want to start with one of the most damning lines from the report.
The autopsy states that the problem wasn't Democratic policy or party brand. What's your response to that?
It's ridiculous. Our brand is everything. Our candidates are our brand. That is why people go out and vote in the first place. And what really pissed me off about this report more than anything was the fact that it's not because there weren't people in the room when they were creating this telling them, hey, we need to talk about Gaza. Hey, we need to talk about inflation.
Hey, we need to talk about the president's age.
Chapter 3: What significant omissions were found in the DNC report?
Right. I was the person in that room. I ran to be vice chair of the DNC to speak for young voters and tell the institution of the DNC what they needed to hear, even if they didn't want to hear it.
I remember in our first meeting of the officers in the DNC building when we were talking about the results of the last election and the preliminary findings of the early autopsy, what we were going to say, what we were going to talk about. 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.
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Chapter 4: How does the DNC's failure affect young voters?
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 literally a layup right now to have the most popular Democratic Party imaginable. Take out the incompetence and the breathtaking, glaring bullshit in this autopsy. Remove that, put that aside for now, which is enough for Ken Martin to be fired, for him to resign this very second.
But just go with the fact that you have a culture at the DNC where they want to crowdsource, what should we believe? We're nihilists that believe in nothing. Let's crowdsource what we should believe in. Also, we have the exact same pimps that MAGA has. The AIPAC pimp buys Donald Trump. The big tech pimps buy Donald Trump. But they also are buying some of our Democratic leaders. Yes.
And you cannot have a party of prostitutes that have the same pimps as Donald Trump has.
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Chapter 5: What role does corporate money play in Democratic politics?
We have to be a full blown opposition party. And I am so fucking pissed off at Ken Martin. I'm so fucking pissed off at focus groups. I'm so fucking pissed off that I'm even registered as a Democrat because everything they're doing is brand damaging. And I come from a red state. I know what Republican super majorities do. I know how they are parasitic. They are compulsive liars.
They weaponize faith to get these earnest voters to come in and vote for them. They've been doing for decades and it's a race to the bottom. And I believe in the Democratic Party. But this version of it is the most pathetic, limp dick version of any political party I've ever seen in my life.
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.
Chapter 6: How can the Democratic Party regain the trust of its base?
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. It is insane to me.
Just last March, when we were challenging Valerie Foushee with Nita Alam, an incredible pro-Palestine candidate that was rejecting the influence of AIPAC, she was on a pathway to victory, defeating an AIPAC-backed candidate, Valerie Foushee. And then at the last second,
Akeem Jeffries, in collaboration with Anthropic Super PAC, came in and spent $2 million six days before the election to defeat a grassroots candidate in a safe blue seat simply to consolidate his own power and protect himself in defense of an incumbent who was heavily backed by APAC. in her first election. What the hell are we doing here? Right?
We came in with within 1200 votes in that election, and we could have had an amazing new member of Congress. And yet we find ourselves addicted to defending the status quo instead of figuring out how can we actually win? Because the American people are sick and tired of being gaslit by our party saying, Oh, we're the party, the working class for the party, the working class.
as the working class and not even just the working class the working and middle classes lives get worse where young people are going out they're going to college they're getting they're trying to get a job and they're doing everything we've been told throughout our lives only to find ourselves in a worse position than our parents while we're being told by this party just believe in democracy just believe in democracy we actually have to make democracy work for the people
if people are going to actually believe in it.
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Chapter 7: What strategies are suggested for improving Democratic candidates?
And increasingly, young people are losing faith in it. In Harvard's most recent public opinion poll of young people, they found that only 13% of 18 to 29-year-old Americans believe the country is on the right track. Our country is not on the right track, and it is going in the wrong direction. And the only people with a real chance to be able to turn it around theoretically
are in the Democratic Party. But right now they are so clearly failing to do that. It could not be more obvious that the establishment is dead and it is time to bring in a new cohort of candidates.
And that's why I'm so glad I'm not at the DNC anymore, because we're doing the work every day at Leaders We Deserve to back the right candidates, to show young people and people of all ages, while there are Democrats that take corporate money out there and there shouldn't be any of them, there is a cohort.
of young, a truly new generation that properly represents you and not special interests like AIPAC or other groups that are responsible for whether it's the genocide in Gaza or the evisceration of the American dream that we're seeing every single day.
OK, a few follow ups. Number one, this notion within the DNC, we have to take corporate money to be competitive. This last race, Kamala out raised Trump. She out raised him and he still won. So we had all of the corporate donations and we still lost against a dementia ridden convicted felon that wears a full face of makeup.
We fucking lost to that guy who tried to overthrow a free and fair election.
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Chapter 8: What actions can listeners take to support effective Democratic candidates?
So that fundraising thing, especially when you look at how Zoran Mamdani in New York took on billionaires, he took on a Democrat named Andrew Cuomo with a... all the backers of all the establishment. He beat his ass twice. So I'm calling bullshit on all of that. I think they enjoy being prostitutes.
They enjoy being pimped out by these corporations because why else would you continue to do it at this point? Number two, The Democratic Party tries to treat us the way MAGA treats their base, which is condescension in a patronizing way. These are what we think. This is how we're going to win. We have to move to the center and you guys need to go along.
You may remember about a year ago or eight months ago, I had Cory Booker on my podcast and I called him out for Benjamin Netanyahu and AIPAC donations. And he said... I don't like this. They don't do this on the right. They don't call each other on the right. I was like, well, yeah, they actually do. And what happens is you're Massey, you're Liz Cheney.
You get sent out to pasture, Jeff Flake, et cetera. we have to call out our politicians we have to say they're the cult we're not we hold our own accountable hakeem what the actual are you doing taking money from palantir what is going on there chuck schumer resign and we have to have a dnc or some um operation that um
I think so many people, if they saw Democrats quit being pussies, our popularity would explode. But I also want to say one thing to the people that are doing the work that you're doing, that I think this is really important because I know that people will dunk on you.
If you back a candidate and then she loses, then you have all the centrists, the third way people that come out and want to dunk on you online. It's important that we keep the faith that look at what Bernie did. He never won president. He made it. Yeah, they are making a difference. And so you got within 1200 votes. We're going to keep organizing. We're going to keep fighting.
We're going to tell the Democratic Party, quit being prostitutes. Quit whoring yourself out to the same pimps that own Donald Trump. It's gross. It's disgusting. Nobody likes it. Grow a pair and fight. Okay, let's get a little bit more into the autopsy. I just had to respond to all of those things really quickly. Let's talk about the omissions. So they left out Gaza.
entirely and i think that it would have been helpful like actually no nobody gave a about gaza or actually yes it caused a lot of people to sit at home and then it's my understanding they didn't bring up inflation nope okay go off
didn't bring up inflation at all they didn't talk about any of the real it well if you do a command f inflation comes up 18 times in the document and every time that it is mentioned it is in regards to inflation adjusted fundraising uh comparing different presidential cycles it's not talking about the skyrocketing cost of living which jesus christ right it doesn't talk about age at all and it doesn't talk more than anything about the what i truly believe
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