David Hogg Is Right: Fascism Is Here. Stop Pretending Otherwise. [View all]

The fight for democracy won’t be won by Democrats who refuse to fight back.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/david-hogg-is-right-fascism-is-here




I usually keep my focus on Texas politics. That’s where I live, that’s where I vote, and frankly, Texas gives us no shortage of battles worth fighting. So I don’t wade into national party drama lightly. There are already too many voices in that conversation. But the so-called controversy surrounding David Hogg isn’t just about the DNC or safe-seat primaries. It’s about the kind of politics that will or won’t survive the moment we’re living through. And that absolutely includes Texas.

If you care about what’s happening in Texas, to our trans kids, to our immigrant neighbors, to working people and public schools, then you already know the Democratic status quo in Washington, DC, isn’t cutting it. And the pushback against Hogg’s $20 million strategy to primary entrenched Democrats should sound familiar. It’s the same pearl-clutching we hear every time someone dares to suggest the problem isn’t just Republicans, but the Democrats, too scared, too compromised, or too tired to fight them.

Let’s be clear: the nightmare is already here. A woman was abducted off a street in Boston by unmarked agents. Asylum seekers are being held in US-sanctioned concentration camps. We’re not approaching a constitutional crisis. We’re living inside the fallout. Fascism is here.