David Hogg Trashes Democracy As a Political System

Well, at least the mask is off. You have to hand it to David Hogg on this one, he doesn’t mince words. 

🚨 WHOA… DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, the party’s new face, issues stunning new statement on “democracy”

“Democracy is what put us through school shooter drills and schools shootings. It’s what’s put us through the climate crisis and so much more.”pic.twitter.com/bdQbk0WIuq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 18, 2025

To be clear, Hogg isn’t calling for an autocracy per se. He just wants to abandon democratic principles when they don’t give leftists what they want. No doubt he would be perfectly happy to live with a “democratic” mode of government as long as it produces the results he and his cohort want. 

Sort of like the Cuban or Venezuelan system of government, in which elections take place with predetermined outcomes. 

What is striking about Hogg’s admission is not that he clearly believes it–it’s pretty clear that the Democrats have embraced a technocratic model of running their party and our government in a manner that ensures as much as possible that appears to be based on democratic legitimacy, but that ensures the outcomes they desire. 

Look at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 methods of choosing the Democratic Party candidate. In none of these primary/candidate selection processes did actual ordinary voters or party members have an opportunity to actually choose their candidate. The process was rigged for Hillary in 2016, for Biden in 2020, and in 2024, there wasn’t even an attempt to make it look like voters or Party members had a choice. 

Molly Ball wrote in Time Magazine about The Secret History of the “Shadow Campaign” to save the 2020 election. In it, the architects of the rigging of the election proudly described how they used hundreds of millions of dollars to stack the deck to ensure Trump lost. The Zuckerbucks, the judicial rulings that changed election laws without legislative approval, flooding the country with mail-in ballots, and unsaid, but also true, the psy-ops and riots that upended America. 

1️⃣ TIME Magazine’s Own Words: The “Shadow Campaign”

TIME’s Molly Ball described a “well-funded cabal” that worked behind the scenes to:
🔹 Pressure social media companies to censor election-related content
🔹 Use data-driven strategies to control election narratives
🔹 Change…

— Quantus Insights (@QuantusInsights) February 5, 2025

Still, it is remarkable for the Vice Chair of the Democratic Party to come out and admit that democracy sucks. No pretending, no hedging. He takes the stance that all the activists and intellectuals on the left have been pushing: America is a country filled with horrible people who oppress and terrorize the good guys, so power should be taken from the voters until they behave better. 

No doubt, there will be lots of hand-waving defenses either of Hogg or of the Party by declaring Hogg to be just one guy. But that is absurd. What he is saying is not only consistent with how the Democrats have run things, but also their defense of the bureaucracy as a “check” on the power of elected officials. 

Not to mention that the Democrats chose this guy to be their primary spokesman in public–when was the last time you saw Ken Martin get out in front and really make a case for the Democrats? He is their operations guy; Hogg is their frontman. I bet most of you couldn’t even have named Martin as the head of the DNC. I guarantee that his name ID is tiny, especially compared to Hogg’s. 

So there it is. It’s not a surprise. The admission won’t move the needle much. But the admission is one more brick in the wall that divides the Democratic Party and the electorate.