The Democrats’ botched 2024 autopsy doesn’t just leave out Gaza. It also simply pretends the left-populist upsurge embodied by Zohran Mamdani isn’t happening, while coveting its achievements.
Are people still pretending they don’t understand it was written by a single freelancer?
That the people now running the DNC, didn’t run it during 2024?
Because I legitimately don’t understand how anyone who only knew those two facts, would still be blaming the people running the DNC since 2025 for what this report says was done wrong in 2024…
So it seems like the safe assumption, is people don’t understand at least one of those two things. Most likely both.
Especially when they repeat “Democrats won’t learn their lesson” literally half a term deep into the DNCs pivot away from neoliberalism. To think they haven’t learned the lesson yet, just means that person hasn’t paid attention since Biden lost the election.
“When I was elected DNC chair, I commissioned an after action review of the 2024 election that I wanted to be honest and transparent, and with actionable and specific takeaways for the future of the Democratic Party,” Martin said. “When I received the report late last year, it wasn’t ready for primetime — not even close — and because no source material was provided, it would have meant starting over.”
Martin went on: “I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on the report that was produced. After last November’s massive Democratic wins, I didn’t want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. For that, I sincerely apologize.”
“For full transparency,” Martin continued, “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.”
Hours later, Martin told DNC members on a call that Paul Rivera, the report author, no longer “is with or advises the DNC in any capacity,” according to a source on the call.
“I apologize. Being a leader at any level means you own every single mistake — those of your creation and frankly those not of your creation,” Martin said. “This was a major mistake. I own it, and now it’s time for us to move forward at the DNC, and I hope that you’ll move forward with me.”
I’m not upset. I’m not who down voted you. Hell, I’ll up vote you to restore balance to the force.
But since Martin commissioned the report from his buddy, that seems like a significant lapse in judgement. Not fatal, but concerning.
And your constant simping for the man is just a tiny bit grating. I hope you’re right, but it’s alway you, and only you, making those points. Again concerning.
Sigh, so that’s who you are. Whatever. The glimmer of hope you’ve been furiously peddling just got that bit dimmer.
Did you think this was a super important rare thing that is never done and a huge deal?
Or…
Are you aware (win or lose) a report like this is always done?
The problem is with who was tasked with making the report. If it had been commissioned before your Big Daddy took power, and he had to deal with a sub-standard report and what to do with it, yeah, bad day at the office. But he commissioned it from this friend of his and that is concerning.
That means he’s not just someone having to clean up the mess, he’s part of the reason there is a mess in the first place.
Like I said, not fatal, but concerning.
Wait, are you Martin? I have a hard time seeing why anyone else would simp for him quite this hard. And do so entirely alone.
I quoted the article. I’d love to see some evidence that it was wrong. That it was Martin’s predecessor who commissioned the e:report, or, at the very least, that this wasn’t “a friend of his”.
Edit: if the article got those facts wrong, that sounds a lot like libel.
It’s still bad that the most generous interpretation is the DNC is being fleeced by incompetent freelancers.
It also implies that the DNC has little interest in understanding why they lost. No mention of Biden’s age, even if to say it had no effect. No mention of Gaza, even if to say it had no effect.
If they have a better post-mordem, that does explore these topics I’d love to see it.
It makes it seem like they weren’t that serious about beating Trump if they’re still willing to hire incompetent people that avoid tough analysis.
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are still the House and Senate leader for the dems. Jefferies is Pelosi’s handpicked successor.
What part of the leadership do you believe has changed? What are their names?
It also implies that the DNC has little interest in understanding why they lost
Th voting members knew why they lost immediately, that’s why they elected Marin instead of another neoliberal…
What part of the leadership do you believe has changed?
The chair is a dictator and can do whatever they want with zero accountability…
So when the chair changes, it’s like a new president, they can set their “admin” however they want.
2 years ago they elected Ken Martin, who spent a decade running Minnesota and turned it from purple to one of the most progressive politicians of any state.
It’s honestly not hard to look into him, but unless you understand the basics of the DNC (what I’ve said here is enough) it doesn’t seem like a huge change.
But people have fought 30 years (arguably 50) trying to get us to where we are now.
It’s not done, but billionaires want us to give up and check out already
It’s this anticipatory self‑sabotage that always makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. The reality is that the DNC has changed. While it’s not perfect, it’s far from where it was at. Hell the run in TN-7 shows that. Republicans designed the district to be R+22 and came up in that election as R+9. Democrats were able to get a ground game going under the nose of the Republicans.
What happens is that people don’t see ENOUGH change and just go full tilt doomer. Nothing changes overnight. People need to get over themselves. If Democrats do what they did for the special election in Tennessee for at least ten years straight, then Republicans are doomed. But there’s this propensity that if it doesn’t happen in the next twenty-four hours then it’ll never happen.
I really strongly encourage Democrats to give up on the doomer act here. Change is difficult, actual change takes time.
If people don’t turn up to vote for you THAT IS YOUR FUCKING FAULT. Why the fuck is this so hard to understand?! I don’t give a fuck if republicans went and personally paid everyone a million dollars to vote for them, losing to that is still your fault! The team/political party that fucking loses must accept the fault for that! That’s the first fucking step to changing! Holy fucking shit why the fuck is this so hard to understand?!
(“Actual change takes time” imagine me saying that in the most snide fucking way as i remember how fucking fast my right to healthcare was snatched away from me as a woman. The privilege to not see how fast things are changing! Things can change fast! That’s what’s fucking happening right now!)
Yeah i seriously see this looking from the outside. There’s a whole gradient of nuance between the extremes of “It’s over, the billionaire backed DNC are Republicans just with nice words, nothing will ever change” and “We did it, it’s over for Trump, MAGA and the Republicans, Democrats have it in the bag, everything will be okay without any further action from us”. You can be optimistic or skeptical about whether change for the better can happen, but you don’t have to be completely nihilist nor complacent.
Keep going, keep envisioning what progress you want to see for the future, what changes and prosecution you want to see to prevent the resurgence of MAGA, and work towards that.
Are people still pretending they don’t understand it was written by a single freelancer?
That the people now running the DNC, didn’t run it during 2024?
Because I legitimately don’t understand how anyone who only knew those two facts, would still be blaming the people running the DNC since 2025 for what this report says was done wrong in 2024…
So it seems like the safe assumption, is people don’t understand at least one of those two things. Most likely both.
Especially when they repeat “Democrats won’t learn their lesson” literally half a term deep into the DNCs pivot away from neoliberalism. To think they haven’t learned the lesson yet, just means that person hasn’t paid attention since Biden lost the election.
Perhaps, but the article does say
So it doesn’t seem like your pal Martin is at all blameless here.
Buddy…
What do you want?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/dnc-releases-2024-autopsy-chair-apologizing-creating-even-bigger-distr-rcna345963
What are you actually upset about here?
I’m not upset. I’m not who down voted you.
Hell, I’ll up vote you to restore balance to the force.But since Martin commissioned the report from his buddy, that seems like a significant lapse in judgement. Not fatal, but concerning.
And your constant simping for the man is just a tiny bit grating. I hope you’re right, but it’s alway you, and only you, making those points. Again concerning.
I think you’re confused still…
Did you think this was a super important rare thing that is never done and a huge deal?
Or…
Are you aware (win or lose) a report like this is always done?
Edit:
And since you care enough about votes to bring it up, I downvoted you for “glazing”. And completely deriding the conversation.
You said “I’m not upset”…
But I think it’s because you don’t understand the words you’re seeing…
Sigh, so that’s who you are. Whatever. The glimmer of hope you’ve been furiously peddling just got that bit dimmer.
The problem is with who was tasked with making the report. If it had been commissioned before your Big Daddy took power, and he had to deal with a sub-standard report and what to do with it, yeah, bad day at the office. But he commissioned it from this friend of his and that is concerning.
That means he’s not just someone having to clean up the mess, he’s part of the reason there is a mess in the first place.
Like I said, not fatal, but concerning.
Wait, are you Martin? I have a hard time seeing why anyone else would simp for him quite this hard. And do so entirely alone.
So…
You still haven’t looked into what actually happened?
You’re just super sure the billionaires have a valid reason to put you against the DNC?
I quoted the article. I’d love to see some evidence that it was wrong. That it was Martin’s predecessor who commissioned the e:report, or, at the very least, that this wasn’t “a friend of his”.
Edit: if the article got those facts wrong, that sounds a lot like libel.
It’s still bad that the most generous interpretation is the DNC is being fleeced by incompetent freelancers.
It also implies that the DNC has little interest in understanding why they lost. No mention of Biden’s age, even if to say it had no effect. No mention of Gaza, even if to say it had no effect.
If they have a better post-mordem, that does explore these topics I’d love to see it.
It makes it seem like they weren’t that serious about beating Trump if they’re still willing to hire incompetent people that avoid tough analysis.
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are still the House and Senate leader for the dems. Jefferies is Pelosi’s handpicked successor.
What part of the leadership do you believe has changed? What are their names?
Th voting members knew why they lost immediately, that’s why they elected Marin instead of another neoliberal…
The chair is a dictator and can do whatever they want with zero accountability…
So when the chair changes, it’s like a new president, they can set their “admin” however they want.
2 years ago they elected Ken Martin, who spent a decade running Minnesota and turned it from purple to one of the most progressive politicians of any state.
It’s honestly not hard to look into him, but unless you understand the basics of the DNC (what I’ve said here is enough) it doesn’t seem like a huge change.
But people have fought 30 years (arguably 50) trying to get us to where we are now.
It’s not done, but billionaires want us to give up and check out already
It’s this anticipatory self‑sabotage that always makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. The reality is that the DNC has changed. While it’s not perfect, it’s far from where it was at. Hell the run in TN-7 shows that. Republicans designed the district to be R+22 and came up in that election as R+9. Democrats were able to get a ground game going under the nose of the Republicans.
What happens is that people don’t see ENOUGH change and just go full tilt doomer. Nothing changes overnight. People need to get over themselves. If Democrats do what they did for the special election in Tennessee for at least ten years straight, then Republicans are doomed. But there’s this propensity that if it doesn’t happen in the next twenty-four hours then it’ll never happen.
I really strongly encourage Democrats to give up on the doomer act here. Change is difficult, actual change takes time.
If people don’t turn up to vote for you THAT IS YOUR FUCKING FAULT. Why the fuck is this so hard to understand?! I don’t give a fuck if republicans went and personally paid everyone a million dollars to vote for them, losing to that is still your fault! The team/political party that fucking loses must accept the fault for that! That’s the first fucking step to changing! Holy fucking shit why the fuck is this so hard to understand?!
(“Actual change takes time” imagine me saying that in the most snide fucking way as i remember how fucking fast my right to healthcare was snatched away from me as a woman. The privilege to not see how fast things are changing! Things can change fast! That’s what’s fucking happening right now!)
Yeah i seriously see this looking from the outside. There’s a whole gradient of nuance between the extremes of “It’s over, the billionaire backed DNC are Republicans just with nice words, nothing will ever change” and “We did it, it’s over for Trump, MAGA and the Republicans, Democrats have it in the bag, everything will be okay without any further action from us”. You can be optimistic or skeptical about whether change for the better can happen, but you don’t have to be completely nihilist nor complacent.
Keep going, keep envisioning what progress you want to see for the future, what changes and prosecution you want to see to prevent the resurgence of MAGA, and work towards that.
It’s the billionaires desperately wanting to depress Dem primary turnout…
If they can get someone like Newsom to the general, he would name the new DNC chair if elected.
And neoliberals would get the party back. We can’t afford to let that happen, so the most important thing is getting people to vote in the Dem primary