Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg announced his support last week for primary challenges against incumbents in safe seats who he felt aren’t rising to the occasion during Donald Trump’s second nightmare term. This is an obviously controversial position for a DNC official, and it resulted in predictable backlash. Charles Pierce at Esquire wrote, “The one thing that this time in history doesn’t need is a well-financed primary campaign against safe incumbents.” In this episode, I am joined by political analyst and previous podcast guest Cliston Brown to give his thoughts on the matter.

You will hear:

• How doing what we have always done WILL bring us what we have always gotten - How can the Democratic party shake things up?
• Why the party seems to be losing support within its own ranks, especially with younger voters
• How under normal circumstances, we wouldn’t recommend running a primary against a sitting president, unless that president is 82 years old and isn’t always “with it,” and maybe do it more than three months before the election
• How can we make changes within the party to get away from the career, dinosaur politician…or does the entire party need to go up in flames and start fresh?
• And more!

Guest Info:

Cliston Brown is a political analyst and communications executive. He writes on U.S. politics at ClistonBrown.com, having previously written for the New York Observer and the California Globe. Additionally, he was a regularly scheduled weekly guest (“Listen to Cliston”) on The Hal Ginsberg Morning Show on Radio Monterey, and also has appeared on “Inside Story” on Al Jazeera English; A News (Istanbul, Turkey) with Andy Boyns, Zaviar Ahmed and Mark Mourad Hammami; India Ahead with Neha Khanna; “Left, Right, Center” with David Webb on the Sirius XM Patriot Channel; “The DeMaio Report” with Carl DeMaio on KOGO-600 AM San Diego; the CY Interview with Chris Yandek and Jay Bildstein; and “Millennial Talk” with Chelsea Krost. He has been mentioned in the Boston Herald, Newsweek, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, in Reason magazine’s “Hit and Run” blog and on Vox.com, among others, and he has spoken before numerous business and trade groups on U.S. elections.

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