"In unprecedented move, DNC official [David Hogg] to spend big to take down fellow Democrats"

[Mike 03]

21. If you are a development executive in Hollywood...

If you green light a movie that is a total failure, you will lose your job. If you never green light anything, you will keep your job and nobody will probably even notice you exist, and that is okay with a lot of film executives.

I see a similar dynamic right now in our party. There is a huge downside to doing something bold, provocative courageous--getting punished by Trump. Nobody really wants to be noticed right now. And there also isn't any reward to being courageous and bold, other than the street cred we give our leaders who we really appreciate for trying something. So only a handful of Dems are being bold, courageous and assertive. Meanwhile, there's not really any punishment for mediocrity, for just going along, just showing up and grinding through the day and praying to holy god nobody in the Trump administration notices you.

What Hogg is doing is raising the stakes of being ineffective, fearful and trying nothing bold or interesting, and I'm okay with that. There will now be a downside to that behavior.