David Hogg: “We know that the cards are stacked against younger people, especially younger women, and we want to do everything we can…”

And if you really are serious about that, you cannot, in good faith, say that you are neutral if you are supporting those party institutions when they are actively intervening in primaries.

They don’t want to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth, which is that we have to dramatically change as a party, and what brought us here is not what’s going to get us out.

We have empowered the cruelty of Republicans and handed them an expanded majority because elderly Democratic leaders refused to step down. It is unconscionable.

We’re trying to be a scalpel here. And it’s not just, it’s not about being out with the old and in with the new. It’s about being out with the ineffective and in with the effective.