David Hogg's Publix stunt is an Alinsky-style shakedown

The foul-mouthed brat strikes again. This tool of the left must have gone to Al Sharpton University; Magna Cum Loudly. TD

Monica Showalter

What's frustrating here is that Publix didn't stand up to this little monster, whose piling-on victories have increased his power and public influence, not through the force of his ideas (which have no force and which won't lead to any gun control) but through the force of his coercion. He's already shown how immature he is, unable to convey his losing ideas to the public, so now he uses Chicago-style muscle as a frontman for the sleazy leftwing groups that are financing him. Because he's not even old enough to remember the nuclear 'die-ins' of the Reagan era that inspired this stunt against Publix, - but the moneybags backing him are.

"David Hogg is back at it, doing the only thing he apparently knows, which is mau-mauing business.

"The youthful gun-control activist staged a 'die-in' at Publix in Coral Springs, Florida, to protest the grocery retailer's donation to a pro-business Republican candidate who also supports the Second Amendment. Apparently, you can't do that and must only work to elect anti-business leftists, or else Hogg will come protesting, bringing his media gaggle, at you.

"Hogg's do-this-or-I'll-stage-a-dramatic-protest-and-bring-the-press is nothing but 'a shakedown.' It doesn't matter that you might be supporting a Republican for business reasons to represent you, you must support leftists or else be declared a mass murderer, all in for the slaughter of high school children. What a bargain. And if you want to talk about divisiveness, and demonizing the opposition, this is how it's done.

"Sadly, Publix, wary of boycotts, has caved in, apologized for being 'divisive,' and declared it has halted all corporate political donations in the service of its business interests. That pretty well ends donations to any Republicans now.

Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it, as Saul Alinsky used to say in his Rules for Radicals, the textbook guide to politically motivated racketeering." . . .

Commentary: Publix doesn't deserve David Hogg's 'die-in' treatment 
. . . "In an interview with The Outline, Hogg called the NRA a group of “pathetic f***ers that want to keep killing our children.”
"As for anyone who accepts an NRA contribution, “It just makes me think what sick f***ers out there want to continue to sell more guns, murder more children, and honestly just get reelected.
“ 'What type of s***ty person does that? They could have blood from children splattered all over their faces and they wouldn’t take action, because they all still see these dollar signs." . . .