Hogg is a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting
Newly elected Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg has previously called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished and for the defunding of police.
“Defund the police not USPS,” Hogg, who first entered the national spotlight after surviving the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting, said in an X post on Aug. 15, 2020.
“Abolish ICE,” Hogg said in a different post two weeks earlier.
The posts, which were made more than two years after Hogg survived the Florida school shooting, came as he became increasingly involved in political activism, most notably by his staunch advocacy for stricter gun laws.
Hogg has also made controversial posts on other topics, including a January 2021 call to declare the NRA a “terrorist organization.”
“The NRA needs to be designated a terrorist organization for the role their supporters played in staging an insurrectionist coup,” Hogg said in the post.
Hogg also made posts about climate change and incorrectly predicted the outcome of the 2024 election.
“Unlike Covid there is no vaccine for climate change once we start feeling the impacts we can just implement and survive. There is only one solution – prevention,” Hogg said in in one post.
“If this election is a match up between Taylor Swift and Ted Nugent I think it’s safe to say I’ve seen enough – Biden wins the 2024 election,” Hogg said before former President Joe Biden made the decision to drop out of the 2024 race.