Democrats finally release 2024 autopsy, somehow forget to examine the body
After months of treating its 2024 election autopsy like the Ark of the Covenant, the Democratic National Committee has finally released the document, only for it to emerge as a 192-page error-strewn bundle that reportedly omits interviews with Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and senior campaign officials, which is one approach to forensic analysis.
“For full transparency, I am releasing the report as we received it, in its entirety, unedited and unabridged. It does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards, but I am doing this because people need to be able to trust the Democratic Party and trust our word,” he wrote in a statement.
But the actual document is a puzzling 192-page compilation made by Martin ally and Democratic strategist Paul Rivera. The report avoids conclusions about party strategy during the election and omits references to key issues, like former President Joe Biden’s initial decision to run for reelection and controversy over his stance on the Israel-Hamas war.
Rivera neglected to interview Harris, Biden, and senior campaign operatives. Also, the report contains many basic factual errors and is annotated with remarks from the DNC distancing itself from the report’s assertions.
Hard to solve a murder mystery when the detective refuses to interview anyone in the mansion.
All I can say is: decades of "voting for the lesser of two evils" has gotten us a bigger evil than we could have imagined. The Democratic party needs to stop being the lesser of two evils and start being *good*, a legit progressive/socialist fighter that even independents and disenfranchised poor who lean right can get with. Now would be a good time for that, folks.
I, for one, am less than impressed with the leadership of the DNC, as well as that of various high-level officials.
Refusing corporate and PAC funds needs to be done before the Democratic Party is going to have much credibility as 'Champions of the Working Class' by actual *members* of that class.
The Clinton-era embrace of corporatism needs to be repudiated, and they need to start acting like fucking *Democrats* again, instead of the Rupublican Lite product we've been offered since the 80's.
'Business as usual' ain't gonna cut it.
It's what *got* us here, after all.