Democratic officials and strategists blasted the Democratic National Committee on Thursday for withholding its autopsy of the party’s loss in the 2024 presidential election, despite repeatedly pledging to release it.
Of course they’re not releasing the autopsy - they’re already planning to continue using the same failed strategies.
The single most important thing to understand about the DNC is that their first priority is collecting enormous piles of soft money from corporations and billionaires. That’s more important to them than any other consideration, including winning elections.
Their primary purpose is not trying to ensure that Democrats win, but trying to ensure that leftists do not, because that’s the exact service their corporate and billionaire donors are buying from them.
And if that means running corrupt neolib hacks who can’t gain enough voter support to win, then that’s just the way it goes. They’ll just fold the fact of their loss into their future donation pitches - they’ll point to the harm the Republican winner has inevitably done, and say that that’s exactly why “we need your support now more than ever.”
So what the autopsy certainly points to as their failures are not, from the DNC’s self-serving viewpoint, failures at all. They’re strategies that they not only very deliberately pursued, but that they have every intention of continuing to pursue. Even if that means they’re going to keep losing elections. Just so long as the soft money keeps flowing.
Sounds right to me.
Even if a Mamdani/AOC/Bernie like candidate swept through the primaries the DNC would still nominate someone like Newsome or Harris. We saw it with Bernie and now with Mamdani.
The DNC is right of center and the RNC is far right. And that Overton Window? The DNC bricked theirs up with fat stacks of cash.
To be fair, Mamdani was born in Uganda, so he isn’t eligible for presidency anyhow.