The document is basically saying, “Keep doing what we’re already doing, *but louder*”.
A quick look through the paper, and it doesnt seem to seriously address any of the issues people have been pointing out about plaguing the Democratic party:
* Talent Pipeline Failure
* Leadership Disconnect from Reality
* “My Turn” Over Merit
* Donor Capture / Elite Influence
* “Republican Lite” Governance
* Marginalization of Progressives
I can see why they were hiding this – it’s an embarrassing waste of time and money to just pat themselves on the back with no real feedback.
Kierufu on
192 pages and not a *single* mention of the party’s uncritical support for Israel becoming radioactive?
Sure, Jan.
TheDadaMax on
The glut of factual errors and lack of critical analysis and creative thought is staggering. It reads like a low-effort, first semester freshman paper. Everyone connected to the production of this document should resign or be fired. This is serious stuff, our democracy and lives are on the line, and we don’t have the luxury of abiding such buffoonery.
Spiffiestspaceman on
“Old man lied to America about being a transition candidate.”
Suspicious_Dust4896 on
IDK, maybe refusing to actually listen to what their voters want was a big problem. The people have shown that they want less Schumer and Jeffries and more Mamdani, AOC, Crockett. But since the DNC only does the will of their corporate masters we are here.
Bowl2007 on
Imagine how bad your party is when you lose to the worst candidate in history. The democratic party in its current form is a dogshit party, it is baffling how they continue to reject leftist ideas that will help the average american.
umassmza on
Don’t run a geriatric running on fumes
Don’t skip a primary when you realize the incumbent is not viable
Don’t pass over popular candidates for leadership positions just because someone else has been there longer. This isn’t the playground, it’s is never anyone’s “turn”.
JFJinCO on
Let’s face it: he didn’t win the election fairly. He even bragged about it, and said Elon helped. Elon’s son and girlfriend said he tampered with the votes. Harris was speaking to packed auditoriums while he was holding rallies at half-full airplane hangars. He didn’t get MORE popular after staging an insurrection, getting convicted of rape, and being found guilty of 34 felonies.
He didn’t get shot in the ear, either.
jstucco on
How does this whole report only mention Biden 4 times?! The DNC still wants to pretend there was nothing wrong with Biden, when the fact that a president stepping down from re-election months before the vote is nigh unheard of.
DarkMattersConfusing on
This is so shit that i can see why they were hiding it. We’re fucked
Electrical-Ad6623 on
The people want Bernie but the DNC wants more corruption
snowstorm608 on
Didn’t Ken Martin just get one of his pals to do this for free? I always thought it was more likely that they buried the autopsy because it was a shoddy piece of work than because it held controversial findings about Gaza or Israel.
What’s the saying? You don’t need to attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Umgar on
Interesting read. I’m glad to see that they have decided to release it in full so we can see what they saw, even though it contains some factual errors. Also not sure I buy the story that they didn’t want to release it because of the errors and the idea that “some people may not take this report seriously because it gets some percentages wrong and has some misspellings.” Methinks I detect the smell of bullshit.
Nothing in the report I’ve seen so far is a surprise. Biggest and most important things I noticed:
– Biden campaign did not set Kamala up for success and missed some big opportunities to help – plus, the timing of the switch was bad and did not really give adequate time to build a coordinated strategy (this kind of seems like a “duh” to me as I think we all know that the best thing that could have happened would have been if Joe announced in 2022 that he wasn’t running again and would pass the torch – this would have allowed for a real primary and to build a cohesive strategy against Trump)
– Kamala put too much into winning urban areas hoping that it would offset rural areas, but rural areas turned up consistently for Trump
– The “She’s for they/them, he is for you” ad really landed with Americans and Harris never had a good response, nor did she have an ad that hit equally well
– Republicans continue to be, unfortunately, better at “politics” than Democrats in the sense that they are not afraid to fight dirty and sadly it works. This is not news for anyone paying attention to politics in the last 40 years. The Democratic party is at least a decade behind the GOP when it comes to how well they weaponize media to attack their opponents and galvanize support for their own candidates. The sad reality is that half the country is chronically misinformed or underinformed and I fear this is only going to get worse with AI that is not only great at micro-targeting but will literally be able to *create the perfect content on the fly,* tailor made for a specific recipient. This is like the nuclear weapons of communicating ideas to the masses.
All American citizens who want to continue to live in our version of a democracy need to collectively address the lethal sepsis of corporate and foreign power seizure infecting our federal, state, and local governments through lobbyists. More states need to follow Hawaii towards nullification of Citizens United legalized corruption.
CASH28 on
Americans want hellfire and brimstone.
Put every MFin crook behind bars. Charged with treason by way of purposefully deceiving the American people and attempting to destroy the fabric of democracy.
No more halfway. No DareDevils, we need The Punisher!
canadevil on
That interview on pod save America with the DNC chair a couple weeks ago was one of the most frustrating interviews I have ever listened to.
The guy is such a smug prick.
OYB2480 on
Spines are things that humans have. Grow one, Dems. You’re not on Israel’s leash. Criticism of Israel is valid. We’re just asking you to be brave enough to ask for the world to stop burning.
nonsensestuff on
God we are so fucking embarrassing.
🙈
Republicans can put out full guides on how to destroy democracy, but we can’t even pull together a report analyzing an election.
I think what went wrong is glaringly obvious: we didn’t get a proper primary to choose the best candidate.
Guava7 on
Can’t wait for the Pod Save America dissection of this
No_Detail9259 on
Im more interested in if they asked any of us for our input? I have some ideas.
Polackjoe on
So incredibly embarrassing to even skim through. It’s been two and a half years and they haven’t managed to even finish introductory paragraphs in half the sections? Like someone else said, this is half-assed undergrad level work product. What a dereliction.
PrivateBozo on
FFS, I voted Dem, I’m a reformed RINO fiscally conservative voter who walked away in the early 2000s when I finally smelled the coffee of the marriage equality campaigns.
Since then though, with the exception of President Obama it has been a hold my nose and vote.
The democratic party lost in 2024 because the GOP with Trump are going low and motivating the disgruntled bigotry and racism in the country. They are scapegoating the bigotry as the reason why the disgruntled are justified in their being disgruntled. In telling them that the reason they are down is the programs that make it harder for them and benefit others.
The democratic party is absolutely tone deaf on that issue and their activist fringe elements are openly hostile to messages that maybe some white people need help too.
Then the party topped it off by having a non-demagogue President who has visible age impacts and didn’t stand up to it.
And the the killshot came when Biden debated and stood there like a deer in the headlights at the end of June with barely more 90 days to go.
With no plan or even viable primary election happened, they proceeded to anoint, while a capable politician, one that is unlikely to won the primaries out right and played to the strengths of the bigotry of the otherside while not motivating anybody to come off the bench to vote for the Democrats.
I hope we look young and to new solution and approaches. Mamdami, AOC, I don’t agree with everything they say, but they and people like them, are our best bets to bring new voters to overturn the right. The same old same old Kelly, Newsom, Beshear, Shapiro, just going to get us four more years of Billionaire puppet.
Symphonycomposer on
I love the disclaimer — it’s the view of the author; not the DNC lmao!!! 🤣
raptorlightning on
This just adds more proof to the hypothesis that the Dems are just controlled opposition acting like they care more. They’re just the pause/recover button when things get too hot but never go against fascism in reality.
tellme_areyoufree on
The biggest failure of all was Biden not sticking to his promise to be a 1 term president until it was too late to do anything meaningful. Organizing a primary with barely 3 months to the election would’ve been impossible, his decisions massively handicapped Kamala’s run while people already had already formed a negative opinion of the Democratic candidate (him) for being old and confused. While I would celebrate a lot of success Biden had, that failure erases every single success in my eyes.
No-Plan-7297 on
clean them out or start a new party.
Matman161 on
I look forward to the day trump dies for many reasons. But one of the most is that the democratic leadership will have nothing left for them to point to and direct criticism elsewhere. I hope the clean house but it’s unlikely
CranberrySchnapps on
GOP party leadership.. and get agent down to local elections must be laughing their assess off at this. The level of incompetence on display is genuinely staggering and representative of why the DNC keeps falling.
But, this needed to be released. It was the only way to have an honest discussion about the direction of the party.
upnorthguy218 on
Democratic leadership is utterly incapable of taking a critical look at themselves and addressing any good-faith complaints. We’re cooked chat!
MyDarlingClementine on
You notice Democrats constantly worry about electability and deliberately put forward nominees their own base doesn’t even like, just to appease the opposition’s base.
Lunacy.
RandyArgonianButler on
This is what I actually believe, and it’s not really the fault of the Democratic Party in particular:
– Social media has pretty much every potential voter pinned down.
– Potential Trump voters were fed a constant barrage of content that would maximize their turnout.
– Potential Harris voters were fed demotivating content (cost of living, etc) to minimize turnout.
X and Meta are the main culprits.
Leroyp331 on
Let me save you a click
It said to moderate… A novel message from the DNC. Never tried that before let’s give it a go
Romano16 on
Until Progressives either take over the party or become a dominant party by itself Democrats will likely keep losing. We need more Mamdanis & Bernie’s.
ngfldar on
I was one of the people who believed that Sanders couldn’t win the general election in 2016 and therefore supported Hillary.
How wrong I was! I misread the national mood entirely and have regretted it ever since.
However, in my defense, I’m not a politician. I’m not even remotely involved in any political campaigns. But if it became that obvious to me, then I can’t see how it could have escaped the DNC, whose fecking job is to read the national mood and present solutions.
I felt the same way after the 2020 election. I was so glad that Trump lost, but I thought Biden would bow out after the midterms and let someone else take the reins. Instead, the Dems (as usual) fecked it up and now we’re stuck with the generational damage being done to our country by the orange Pedo President who currently occupies the White House.
Big_Bullfrog3255 on
I wish they hadn’t gotten rid of David Hogg. We really need that youth and that feistiness at the DNC.
HardcoreKaraoke on
>The report, first released by CNN, contains errors and lacks a conclusion — an indication that part of the reason it hasn’t been released before now was that it was poorly done.
Lmao. So they were hesitant to release the autopsy because they had someone not really qualified to do it working on it part time and it wasn’t even finished.
I feel like the handling of the report itself is enough of an indicator on why this party absolutely blew what should have been a layup election. Pure incompetence and hubris.
Chewy411 on
It was over when the Biden administration decided not to expand the supreme court and letting Garland take his time going after Trump. Even if there wasn’t the votes to expand the court, the goal is to put pressure and he wasn’t very good at that.
iKangaeru on
Here’s my analysis: Some people didn’t want to vote a candidate who was black and a woman. Meanwhile, the opposition unleashed a blizzard of lies and promises they had no intention of keeping – as we’re seeing now in real time.
553l8008 on
Lets see…
Don’t indict, convict, or imprison criminal
Run semi cadaver for 3 years 8 months
Pivot to 2nd most unlikable pant suit with 4 months to go
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The document is basically saying, “Keep doing what we’re already doing, *but louder*”.
A quick look through the paper, and it doesnt seem to seriously address any of the issues people have been pointing out about plaguing the Democratic party:
* Talent Pipeline Failure
* Leadership Disconnect from Reality
* “My Turn” Over Merit
* Donor Capture / Elite Influence
* “Republican Lite” Governance
* Marginalization of Progressives
I can see why they were hiding this – it’s an embarrassing waste of time and money to just pat themselves on the back with no real feedback.
192 pages and not a *single* mention of the party’s uncritical support for Israel becoming radioactive?
Sure, Jan.
The glut of factual errors and lack of critical analysis and creative thought is staggering. It reads like a low-effort, first semester freshman paper. Everyone connected to the production of this document should resign or be fired. This is serious stuff, our democracy and lives are on the line, and we don’t have the luxury of abiding such buffoonery.
“Old man lied to America about being a transition candidate.”
IDK, maybe refusing to actually listen to what their voters want was a big problem. The people have shown that they want less Schumer and Jeffries and more Mamdani, AOC, Crockett. But since the DNC only does the will of their corporate masters we are here.
Imagine how bad your party is when you lose to the worst candidate in history. The democratic party in its current form is a dogshit party, it is baffling how they continue to reject leftist ideas that will help the average american.
Don’t run a geriatric running on fumes
Don’t skip a primary when you realize the incumbent is not viable
Don’t pass over popular candidates for leadership positions just because someone else has been there longer. This isn’t the playground, it’s is never anyone’s “turn”.
Let’s face it: he didn’t win the election fairly. He even bragged about it, and said Elon helped. Elon’s son and girlfriend said he tampered with the votes. Harris was speaking to packed auditoriums while he was holding rallies at half-full airplane hangars. He didn’t get MORE popular after staging an insurrection, getting convicted of rape, and being found guilty of 34 felonies.
He didn’t get shot in the ear, either.
How does this whole report only mention Biden 4 times?! The DNC still wants to pretend there was nothing wrong with Biden, when the fact that a president stepping down from re-election months before the vote is nigh unheard of.
This is so shit that i can see why they were hiding it. We’re fucked
The people want Bernie but the DNC wants more corruption
Didn’t Ken Martin just get one of his pals to do this for free? I always thought it was more likely that they buried the autopsy because it was a shoddy piece of work than because it held controversial findings about Gaza or Israel.
What’s the saying? You don’t need to attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Interesting read. I’m glad to see that they have decided to release it in full so we can see what they saw, even though it contains some factual errors. Also not sure I buy the story that they didn’t want to release it because of the errors and the idea that “some people may not take this report seriously because it gets some percentages wrong and has some misspellings.” Methinks I detect the smell of bullshit.
Nothing in the report I’ve seen so far is a surprise. Biggest and most important things I noticed:
– Biden campaign did not set Kamala up for success and missed some big opportunities to help – plus, the timing of the switch was bad and did not really give adequate time to build a coordinated strategy (this kind of seems like a “duh” to me as I think we all know that the best thing that could have happened would have been if Joe announced in 2022 that he wasn’t running again and would pass the torch – this would have allowed for a real primary and to build a cohesive strategy against Trump)
– Kamala put too much into winning urban areas hoping that it would offset rural areas, but rural areas turned up consistently for Trump
– The “She’s for they/them, he is for you” ad really landed with Americans and Harris never had a good response, nor did she have an ad that hit equally well
– Republicans continue to be, unfortunately, better at “politics” than Democrats in the sense that they are not afraid to fight dirty and sadly it works. This is not news for anyone paying attention to politics in the last 40 years. The Democratic party is at least a decade behind the GOP when it comes to how well they weaponize media to attack their opponents and galvanize support for their own candidates. The sad reality is that half the country is chronically misinformed or underinformed and I fear this is only going to get worse with AI that is not only great at micro-targeting but will literally be able to *create the perfect content on the fly,* tailor made for a specific recipient. This is like the nuclear weapons of communicating ideas to the masses.
Democrats are just controlled opposition at this point. They are paid to lose and never miss a check. They’re happy to be the soft underbelly of our country’s Corporate Uniparty©.
Progressives, or anyone center or left, need to leave these spineless AIPAC beneficiaries behind and build a political movement that’s not reliant on the captured Uniparty© political machine.
All American citizens who want to continue to live in our version of a democracy need to collectively address the lethal sepsis of corporate and foreign power seizure infecting our federal, state, and local governments through lobbyists. More states need to follow Hawaii towards nullification of Citizens United legalized corruption.
Americans want hellfire and brimstone.
Put every MFin crook behind bars. Charged with treason by way of purposefully deceiving the American people and attempting to destroy the fabric of democracy.
No more halfway. No DareDevils, we need The Punisher!
That interview on pod save America with the DNC chair a couple weeks ago was one of the most frustrating interviews I have ever listened to.
The guy is such a smug prick.
Spines are things that humans have. Grow one, Dems. You’re not on Israel’s leash. Criticism of Israel is valid. We’re just asking you to be brave enough to ask for the world to stop burning.
God we are so fucking embarrassing.
🙈
Republicans can put out full guides on how to destroy democracy, but we can’t even pull together a report analyzing an election.
I think what went wrong is glaringly obvious: we didn’t get a proper primary to choose the best candidate.
Can’t wait for the Pod Save America dissection of this
Im more interested in if they asked any of us for our input? I have some ideas.
So incredibly embarrassing to even skim through. It’s been two and a half years and they haven’t managed to even finish introductory paragraphs in half the sections? Like someone else said, this is half-assed undergrad level work product. What a dereliction.
FFS, I voted Dem, I’m a reformed RINO fiscally conservative voter who walked away in the early 2000s when I finally smelled the coffee of the marriage equality campaigns.
Since then though, with the exception of President Obama it has been a hold my nose and vote.
The democratic party lost in 2024 because the GOP with Trump are going low and motivating the disgruntled bigotry and racism in the country. They are scapegoating the bigotry as the reason why the disgruntled are justified in their being disgruntled. In telling them that the reason they are down is the programs that make it harder for them and benefit others.
The democratic party is absolutely tone deaf on that issue and their activist fringe elements are openly hostile to messages that maybe some white people need help too.
Then the party topped it off by having a non-demagogue President who has visible age impacts and didn’t stand up to it.
And the the killshot came when Biden debated and stood there like a deer in the headlights at the end of June with barely more 90 days to go.
With no plan or even viable primary election happened, they proceeded to anoint, while a capable politician, one that is unlikely to won the primaries out right and played to the strengths of the bigotry of the otherside while not motivating anybody to come off the bench to vote for the Democrats.
I hope we look young and to new solution and approaches. Mamdami, AOC, I don’t agree with everything they say, but they and people like them, are our best bets to bring new voters to overturn the right. The same old same old Kelly, Newsom, Beshear, Shapiro, just going to get us four more years of Billionaire puppet.
I love the disclaimer — it’s the view of the author; not the DNC lmao!!! 🤣
This just adds more proof to the hypothesis that the Dems are just controlled opposition acting like they care more. They’re just the pause/recover button when things get too hot but never go against fascism in reality.
The biggest failure of all was Biden not sticking to his promise to be a 1 term president until it was too late to do anything meaningful. Organizing a primary with barely 3 months to the election would’ve been impossible, his decisions massively handicapped Kamala’s run while people already had already formed a negative opinion of the Democratic candidate (him) for being old and confused. While I would celebrate a lot of success Biden had, that failure erases every single success in my eyes.
clean them out or start a new party.
I look forward to the day trump dies for many reasons. But one of the most is that the democratic leadership will have nothing left for them to point to and direct criticism elsewhere. I hope the clean house but it’s unlikely
GOP party leadership.. and get agent down to local elections must be laughing their assess off at this. The level of incompetence on display is genuinely staggering and representative of why the DNC keeps falling.
But, this needed to be released. It was the only way to have an honest discussion about the direction of the party.
Democratic leadership is utterly incapable of taking a critical look at themselves and addressing any good-faith complaints. We’re cooked chat!
You notice Democrats constantly worry about electability and deliberately put forward nominees their own base doesn’t even like, just to appease the opposition’s base.
Lunacy.
This is what I actually believe, and it’s not really the fault of the Democratic Party in particular:
– Social media has pretty much every potential voter pinned down.
– Potential Trump voters were fed a constant barrage of content that would maximize their turnout.
– Potential Harris voters were fed demotivating content (cost of living, etc) to minimize turnout.
X and Meta are the main culprits.
Let me save you a click
It said to moderate… A novel message from the DNC. Never tried that before let’s give it a go
Until Progressives either take over the party or become a dominant party by itself Democrats will likely keep losing. We need more Mamdanis & Bernie’s.
I was one of the people who believed that Sanders couldn’t win the general election in 2016 and therefore supported Hillary.
How wrong I was! I misread the national mood entirely and have regretted it ever since.
However, in my defense, I’m not a politician. I’m not even remotely involved in any political campaigns. But if it became that obvious to me, then I can’t see how it could have escaped the DNC, whose fecking job is to read the national mood and present solutions.
I felt the same way after the 2020 election. I was so glad that Trump lost, but I thought Biden would bow out after the midterms and let someone else take the reins. Instead, the Dems (as usual) fecked it up and now we’re stuck with the generational damage being done to our country by the orange Pedo President who currently occupies the White House.
I wish they hadn’t gotten rid of David Hogg. We really need that youth and that feistiness at the DNC.
>The report, first released by CNN, contains errors and lacks a conclusion — an indication that part of the reason it hasn’t been released before now was that it was poorly done.
Lmao. So they were hesitant to release the autopsy because they had someone not really qualified to do it working on it part time and it wasn’t even finished.
I feel like the handling of the report itself is enough of an indicator on why this party absolutely blew what should have been a layup election. Pure incompetence and hubris.
It was over when the Biden administration decided not to expand the supreme court and letting Garland take his time going after Trump. Even if there wasn’t the votes to expand the court, the goal is to put pressure and he wasn’t very good at that.
Here’s my analysis: Some people didn’t want to vote a candidate who was black and a woman. Meanwhile, the opposition unleashed a blizzard of lies and promises they had no intention of keeping – as we’re seeing now in real time.
Lets see…
Don’t indict, convict, or imprison criminal
Run semi cadaver for 3 years 8 months
Pivot to 2nd most unlikable pant suit with 4 months to go
Did I do it? Did I do the autopsy?