Why this DNC is Hiding their Post-Mortem Report on the 2024 Race: The Inside Story.

The move by the DNC to suppress the publication regarding its internal autopsy report on the last presidential race appears shocking however not surprising. Opposed to hard truths, the DNC operates more like a PR firm than an electoral entity focused on building grassroots capacities for winning elections.

A Climate of Conformity

Reluctant to break with the prevailing attitude of conformity, the DNC has stayed under the influence of the previous administration throughout this past year. Making public an official autopsy might have shown that the leadership actually want to encourage open debate regarding the strategic failures that enabled the former president to return to the White House. Instead, the committee is acting under the pretense that there is little to glean following the stunning loss of 2024.

Our guiding principle: is this good for winning elections? Should the answer be negative, it is an unnecessary diversion from what truly matters," a justification that has been offered for withholding the report.

Key Issues an Autopsy Could Have Explored

Any valuable post-mortem with any value would confront key points of failure. Among them are:

• Voter Disengagement: Failing to retain of millions of voters who supported the Democratic ticket during the previous election was decisive in the close recent race.
• A Choice to Run: The unwavering insistence of the incumbent to stay in the race, and a very late exit, is seen by some as robbing Democratic voters of open primaries.
• Failing Core Democratic Voters: During a time of rising costs, the campaign is criticized for bowing to elite contributors while failing to challenge the effects of profit-seeking.
• The Gaza Factor: The failure to shift a policy position on a major international conflict allegedly caused losing key demographic groups, particularly with young people, Arab American communities, Muslim voters.
• Eroding Young Voter Support: Research shows a significant decline in votes for the candidate from young voters.

A History Avoiding Accountability

This refusal aligns with a pattern of sidestepping uncomfortable facts. This mirrors a dynamic in which nearly all Democratic officeholder in Congress went along with an incumbent's insistence on running for re-election until a poor televised debate forced a reversal.

Concurrently, a significant majority within the party's base had been repeatedly informing surveyors that they opposed the incumbent to be the nominee.

Financial Concerns

A thorough autopsy might also examine matters regarding where money went, such as how much money went to party strategists and ad buyers over the course of a campaign that managed to spend a colossal war chest in a short period.

The Broader Issue

Ultimately, the blockage surrounding this report is symptomatic of an allegiance toward party leaders who engineered a disastrous presidential campaign. The signal for ordinary supporters – which includes millions of loyal volunteers – appears to be that they cannot be trusted to know what the leadership say they discovered based on an analysis based on conversations with insiders.

A political entity unwilling to honestly assess its own failings is unlikely to climb out of the pattern which was so beneficial to the rival party.