David Hogg to Democratic Establishment: Get the Message or Get Voted Out

To activist and organizer David Hogg, the future of the Democratic Party is pretty clear: Establishment candidates and leaders are “going to get the message or they’re going to get voted out.” Speaki

ng to WIRED senior politics editor Leah Feiger at The Big Interview event in San Francisco on Thursday, Hogg said that he doesn’t “think the Chuck Schumers of the world understand” how dire things could be for middle-of-the-road, corporate-backed Democrats when 2026 and 2028 roll around. “They think

that there's going to be some kind of democratic Tea Party, and it's going to be a bunch of progressive lefties that are younger and super pissed off, and we’ll vote all these people out, but I don’t actually think that’s the whole picture.” Hogg said. Boomers, Ho

gg said, ar

e likely the group most out of touch with their generation in Washington, DC. “You know why I say th

at?” Hogg said. “It's because t

he people t

hat are marching by the millions right now in the No Kings Day protests are not young people. They are people of Chuck Sch

umer's generation that are extremely pissed off with him.” Hogg’s Schumer slams weren’t t

he only anti-boomer jabs he threw during his talk, likening the current makeup of Congress to the “end of the Soviet Union” when he said “leaders were dying over and over because they were so old,” and complaining about the establishment leadership in the Democratic National Committee, where Hogg was vice chair until a recent shake-up. While Hogg did concede that “there are ple