When a political party starts eating its young, it’s not a sign of strength—it’s a sign of fear.

This summer, the Democratic Party cracked down on one of its own: David Hogg—a Gen Z reformer—was ousted after challenging the party’s aging incumbents. Meanwhile, younger voters on the left and right are pulling further apart. Progressives want to rebuild the country from scratch; conservatives are looking to rebuild the family, the nation, and the faith.

But here’s the problem for Democrats: the party isn’t designed for ideological conflict. It’s designed to contain it. For decades, the DNC has kept power not by persuasion, but by control—controlling debate access, rewriting rules, and sidelining dissent. And it worked—until now.

Because Gen Z isn’t buying the party line. They’re not unifying around compromise. They’re entrenching—choosing sides, choosing intensity, choosing ideology over loyalty. And when a generation does that, it doesn’t join a party. It breaks it.

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Today we examine how the Democratic Party works to control dissent, why that’s starting to fail, and what happens when the youngest Americans reject the oldest political party in the world.

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