Just over a year ago, David Hogg, then the newly-minted vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, found himself unceremoniously pushed out after he called on the party to back primary challengers to unseat members of a moribund establishment.
Now, as progressives notch victory after victory against the party’s conservative old guard and are once again galvanizing young voters thought to have been lost, the 26-year-old reformer says it proves he was right all along.
2020s Democrats are mostly 1980s Republicans that are more okay with diversity.
The second half of this statement is debatable
As someone who lived in the 80s, it isn’t debatable. A gay person outside of highly liberal cities, had to hide being gay or they were at a severe disadvantage. That is now true in much fewer locations.
Yeah but were they as islamophobic? I remember Obamas deportation push.
They weren’t okay with the same diversity, but maybe more total. It’s arguable.
Edit: wait, thought that was a 0 instead of a second 2. Idk man you think they really want us in their towns? Doesn’t feel that way for me.
*certain diversity