This action by the DNC to withhold the public viewing regarding its own post-election analysis concerning the last presidential race is remarkable however entirely predictable. Resistant to hard truths, the Democrats' governing body behaves more like a PR firm rather than a political organization focused on cultivating a volunteer base for winning elections.
A Culture That Avoids Dissent
Hesitant to challenge the prevailing attitude of conformity, the committee has stayed within the Biden-Harris shadow throughout this past year. Releasing the findings might have shown that the leadership truly desire to promote public discourse regarding the strategic failures that enabled Donald Trump to return to the White House. Yet, the committee is acting under the pretense that there are no lessons to glean from the stunning loss of 2024.
The top priority: does this help us win? If not, it’s a distraction from our fundamental goal," a justification that has been offered for withholding the document.
Major Failures an Analysis Would Have Addressed
An autopsy report worth its salt would tackle head-on certain uncomfortable matters. These include:
- Electoral Disengagement: The loss among millions of voters who supported the party's candidate during the previous election was decisive in the narrowly decided recent race.
- The Insistence to Run: The stubborn decision by a party leader to run again, and a very late exit, is seen by some as denying Democratic voters of a competitive nomination process.
- Abandoning Everyday Americans: Amid inflation, the electoral effort allegedly bowing to corporate donors' interests without successfully attempting to address the impact of corporate greed.
- A Foreign Policy Effect: The failure to reconsider an approach on the situation in Gaza is cited as alienating significant blocs, particularly among young people, Arab-Americans, Muslim voters.
- Losing Youth Support: Extensive evidence indicates a major decrease of votes for the candidate among the youth electorate.
A History of Evasion
The decision to withhold aligns with a pattern of evading uncomfortable facts. It recalls an episode where virtually every elected Democrat in Washington acquiesced to a sitting president's insistence on seeking another term right up until a poor televised debate forced a change.
At the same time, large majorities of Democratic voters were consistently telling pollsters of their opposition to that candidate to seek re-election.
Financial Issues
A thorough autopsy might also examine issues about financial allocations, including the amounts flowed to insider consultants and advertising contractors during an electoral effort that managed to spend a colossal war chest during the general election.
A Broader Implication
At its core, the secrecy regarding the analysis points to a submission toward the established hierarchy who engineered an unsuccessful electoral effort. The implication for ordinary supporters – including countless small donors – is that they do not be trusted to understand the lessons the insiders say they discovered from an analysis drawing from feedback from all states.
An organization unwilling to publicly examine its own failings finds it difficult to break free from the cycle that ended up being so helpful to their opponents.
