David Hogg in freefall as DNC chaos exposes cracks in woke agenda

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is once again reaping the rewards of its own woke rulebook, as a top panel just recommended nullifying the election that handed radical anti-gun activist-turned-party operative David Hogg a vice-chair seat. Why? Because the vote may not have been “fair” to women.

You can’t make this up.

At the heart of the mess is a challenge from Oklahoma Democratic Committeewoman Kalyn Free, who lost out to Hogg and Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta in February’s vote. Free claims the DNC’s push for “gender balance”—a staple of the left’s DEI orthodoxy—was violated when the vote was streamlined to save time. In the rush to wrap up a marathon voting session, the party opted to vote for two vice-chairs at once instead of holding separate votes. That maneuver, Free argues, gave the two remaining male candidates—Hogg and Kenyatta—an unfair advantage.

Ironically, it was the party’s own rigid gender-quota rules that supposedly required electing at least one man to maintain equity. But now, in a stunning turn of events, the DEI Frankenstein the Democrats created has come to devour its creators.

The DNC Credentials Committee agreed Monday evening that the vote was, in their words, “incomplete.” Their recommendation? Throw the whole thing out and do it over, meaning Hogg and Kenyatta may soon be booted from their positions.

The vote isn’t final until the full DNC weighs in, but the signal is clear: the Democratic Party is eating itself alive in an identity-politics-driven meltdown.

Naturally, the fallout is already brewing into a civil war. Hogg, never one to miss a moment for martyrdom, said the dispute “looms large” over his efforts to “reform the party,” casting himself as a victim of the DNC’s refusal to embrace his progressive crusade—like challenging incumbent Democrats from the left.

“I ran to be DNC Vice Chair to help make the Democratic Party better, not to defend an indefensible status quo,” Hogg declared, as though his own position wasn’t awarded through the same convoluted system he’s now condemning.

Kenyatta, meanwhile, took the recommendation personally, calling it “a slap in my face,” and insisted he “worked [his] a– off” to get there. He also tried to distance himself from Hogg, saying, “This story is complex… but it’s not about [David Hogg]. Even though he clearly wants it to be.”

It’s a full-blown circus.

New DNC Chair Ken Martin tried to downplay the drama, chalking it up to a simple “procedural error.” But a three-hour virtual meeting and a deadlocked committee vote tell a different story—one of dysfunction, finger-pointing, and a party in disarray.

In the end, the resolution passed 13–5, calling for a new election “as soon as practicable,” leaving the future of Hogg and Kenyatta up in the air. Both can run again—but given how quickly the party turns on its own, they might want to think twice.

This is the Democratic Party’s DEI doctrine in action: a tangled web of quotas, identity boxes, and impossible-to-navigate rules designed more for optics than outcomes. Now it’s backfiring publicly, and the people it was meant to empower are left holding the bag.

Welcome to the diversity disaster.