The New Boss Hogg
When I was a kid, there were few television characters I despised more than Jefferson Davis “Boss” Hogg on the Dukes of Hazzard.
He drove around that poor county in his white Cadillac convertible, in his white suit, and white hat, smoking cigars. Normally, the white hat was reserved for “good guys” back then, but even I knew that fat little dude was crooked. He owned everything. Businesses, land, houses, the Boar’s Nest where Daisy Duke worked. I think he even owned the funeral home and the graveyard.
He was what they called the County Commissioner. I think that may have been a real thing back then, but all I knew was that he was corrupt. He controlled the jail and the court and even the Sheriff was his brother-in-law and chief lackey. Good ole Rosco P. Coltrane and his dog Flash.
Boss Hogg’s only goal was to have MORE money. He stole money. He schemed. He conned people. He came up with all kinds of ways to make himself rich without doing any real work. And the Duke Boys were the ones that stopped him over and over. Every episode. That was the premise of the show.
Boss Hogg was crooked. Bo and Luke Duke were there to stop him.
There’s a new Boss Hogg out there and we could probably use a couple of Duke Boys to stop him.
David Hogg, no relation (that we know of) to J.D. “Boss” Hogg from the show, is one of the new Vice Chairs of the Democratic National Committee. Like Boss Hogg using his white suit, hat, and car, David Hogg tries to portray himself as a “good guy” to mask his activities.
If you don’t remember this kid (and he is a kid), he was at Stoneman Douglass High School in 2018 during the school shooting. He very quickly capitalized on that incident to make a name for himself, leading numerous anti-gun protests and involving himself in politics.
Like many young Democrat activists, he has no adult life experience beyond his education. Daddy was an FBI agent and mommy was a teacher. He graduated high school in 2018, took a “gap year”, then went to Harvard and graduated in 2023. The only real experience he has, beyond a failed two-month business venture in 2021, is being a political activist and anti-gun advocate. That’s it.
You can speculate all you want about his role and what happened to him during the shooting at his high school. I have my own opinion based on what I have read. That’s not really what this is about, but it does paint a picture so here is a quick recap. All accounts say he was at school, and he heard some pops and then spent the rest of the time locked in a closet interviewing and recording other students and texting with his sister. Didn’t see the shooter. Didn’t see the bodies. Didn’t get shot at.
He does publicly state he has PTSD, dyslexia, and ADHD. For someone with all those conditions, he operates pretty well in society, around large crowds, and speaking publicly.
On the face of it, he is a loud and obnoxious young man to many. To others, he is a champion and hero.
He assumed office as the Vice Chair at the DNC on February 2, 2025, and has already declared as soon as he is of age and the opportunity arises, he is running for office. Why wouldn’t you? Your party has stroked your ego and boosted your public profile since you were 18. You’re as manufactured as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and equally as unqualified, but she’s in office so why not.
And he has almost every card in the Democratic deck to play. He’s got the victim card (school shooting), he has the disability card (ADHD, PTSD, and dyslexia), and he has the youth card (he’s 25). Plus, he’s anti-gun and pro-socialism. The only things he has going against him are he is white, and he is male, but his election as a Vice Chair at the DNC sends a clear message that his two “disadvantages” don’t matter that much.
He is the latest face of the Democratic Youth Movement.
Really, he is a grifter. He is the new Boss Hogg.
Within days of assuming office as the Vice Chair, he used the voter rolls from the DNC to contact donors for a Political Action Committee that he set up in 2023. The PAC is called “Leaders We Deserve”.
Is that a big deal? Probably not, except that PAC also has PAID David Hogg $175,000 in salary since he set it up and now, he is using the DNC to funnel MORE money into his personal PAC. Conflict of interest much?
Is it illegal? No, it isn’t. Is it unethical? That’s the way some people INSIDE the DNC feel. They also can’t believe this kid didn’t wait a week before he started to exploit his new position for his personal gain. He’s already rubbing some people the wrong way inside his OWN party.
Honestly, he is another self-inflicted wound for the Democrats. They found him, they boosted him, they trained him, they gave him the platform, they introduced him and connected him with the “old guard” of the party. They did all that. And now, people are PISSED because he is already acting like them. Zero surprise here. He is a product of the environment.
David Hogg is a kid. I continue to say that because it is true. He is immature, inexperienced, and a selfish brat. Like many kids of Gen Z, he needs a dose of reality and probably to be put in check by someone from Gen X because all he wants is “more”.
More money, more notoriety, more microphones, more social media, more power. That’s what he wants, and he wants it NOW. There is no patience. There is no desire to put work in. He is Greta Thunberg in skinny jeans, but he is more dangerous because he is also lacking in morals.
He is the New Boss Hogg. We need to find some new Duke Boys to stop him.