August 3, 2026

"This is the untold story of the autopsy that won’t die."

I'm reading "Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter/A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward" (NYT gift link).

Read the chapter: here.

40 comments:

Dave Begley said...

The author thinks the Russians influenced the election. Idiot.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"What democrats now have to accept is no matter the circumstances, the party should be strong enough and capable enough to elect anyone - the proverbial ham sandwich, if necessary. Because republicans have now proven they can nominate [an] elect a convicted felon."

Sure, Jan.

Dave Begley said...

If the Dems can't cheat on the same scale in 2028 as they did in 2024, they will lose.

As the Senator from MI said, the Dems need to cheat to win.

Just tell the truth.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

The report could have been boiled down to one sentence: “We should have listened to Dean Phillips."

Ken Martin should resign for lack of a strategic vision, tactical acumen and sheer incompetence. In the current climate, Democrats should be eviscerating the Republicans. The data on the Democratic brand approval lies at the feet of the DNC

Howard said...

Exactly, Eye double E. The DNC has no plan. They just like to bitch complain and smear,, half of which is directed to their own voters and political operatives.

Aggie said...

There are apparently some ideas that the Democrats still can't afford not to pretend not to know. It's a secret: Joe Biden shouldn't have insisted on running again. But don't tell anybody.

BothSidesNow said...

Read this NYT story this morning. Every time I hear someone lament Trump, I ask: What is wrong with the Democratic Party that they could not defeat him, even after January 6. This article starts to get at an answer to that question. Love the emphasis on the consultants who gained "gernerational wealth" advising the Democratic Party. Remember in Charolotte's Web, when the spide weaves a web that says "Some Pig" and the farmer looks at the pig, Wilbur, and sees him as a remarkable pig. And his wife suggests that perhaps it is the spider that is remarkable? When people keep looking at Trump and ask why, they should be looking at the Democratic Party, and asking how could it lose to Trump.

Aggie said...

I mean, criminey: ...'“That is false,” Mr. Martin said. “This alleged report section was not in any binder I reviewed.”...'

People are complaining that they left out a key chapter, and this dope insists on calling it 'alleged', because he can't bear to admit it exists.

Temujin said...

My favorite part is then the Times writer says, "In 2019, Democrats had a very broad nominating process resulting in the nomination of Joe Biden in early 2020."

Except for when they didn't. The Times clearly missed the 2020 Democratic Primary where Bernie Sanders was poised to win the thing and Jame Clyburn arranged South Carolina to be a massive Biden sweep. Then the DNC circled the wagons arranging the Biden candidacy in the following primaries.

We all saw this.
The Times follows that up by stating that Trump's "mishandling of the pandemic cost him the Presidency". Well...not sure who didn't mishandle the pandemic outside of Ron DeSantis. The Dems were all in on shutting things down and encouraged Trump to do it, to demand those things mandated, and used Fauci as the right religious icon at the right time to get it done.

Here's the story: The nation moved dramatically away from Democrats in the 2024 election. Of this there is no question. The question now is whether moving further left, becoming declared socialists/communists/anarchists/antisemites will win the hearts and minds of those who left...or not. It becomes whether the hatred of Trump and all things Trump is greater than the fear and loathing of socialists/communists/anarchists/antisemites. I don't have the answer to that one. I thought I would have until these past few years. At this point, I'd say America is up for grabs. And until Americans show me otherwise, this could go either way.

Clyde said...

Completely missing from the "missing chapter" is any reference to illegal immigration (or whatever euphemism the Democrat think tanks use for it). "Bidenomics," aka out-of-control inflation, was barely mentioned toward the end. These people don't think that the reason the dogs won't eat the dog food is because it is bad, but because the advertising for it is bad. They believe in "messaging" over "policy," which was why they lost in 2024.

ForestwithouttreeS said...

I think he created it after the fact to make himself look better. Why wouldn’t he have emailed it? Why wouldn’t the party have released it with the rest?

mindnumbrobot said...

"Donald Trump rode down the escalator, destroyed the Republican establishment, and won election with the Democratic implosion in the battleground states, supercharged through Russian interference and disinformation - and election meddling by the Comey FBI."

Why would they conclude this in a supposedly honest, introspective, autopsy? Can't they just say Hillary was a terrible campaigner and horrible, unlikable, unelectable candidate? And where is the part about how they railroaded Bernie in the primaries, sapping any potential energy? This doesn't make any sense.

mindnumbrobot said...

And please forgive me for thinking they're talking about 2016, not 2020. What did any of the paragraph I quoted have to do with 2020?

gilbar said...

"What democrats now have to accept is no matter the circumstances, the party should be strong enough and capable enough to elect anyone - the proverbial ham sandwich.."

Francesca Hong? I'll believe it when the votes are "counted"

hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...

One man did the autopsy? But no one is interested in podcasting him!

Iman said...

“These people don't think that the reason the dogs won't eat the dog food is because it is bad, but because the advertising for it is bad. They believe in "messaging" over "policy," which was why they lost in 2024.”

Yep… not the only reason, but one of the biggest.

rehajm said...

…here’s the thing- Tump is good at Presidenting. His skill set in his private business is essential to succeed in politics. That doesn’t change because you don’t like him…

rehajm said...

“Why would they conclude this in a supposedly honest, introspective, autopsy?”

This here. This ‘extra’ chapter of a claimed autopsy correlates with the bullet points distributed by their political strategists. Funny that…

Iman said...

“In the current climate, Democrats should be eviscerating the Republicans.”

How ANYONE can write that knowing the Democrats’ record of abject failure in nearly every meaningful component of things affecting honest, productive American citizens is absolutely amusing.

RideSpaceMountain said...

They cannot introspect when honest introspection will reveal policy holes you can drive 60,000 illegal Moroccan invaders through. Admitting every leg of your policy table is termite-ridden means revealing your policy is just "we hate Trump". Everyone smart already knows this, but their voters are not smart.

Vance said...

Just remember: Democrats claim Trump is inbred Hitler, drooling at the mouth and worse than Biden, corrupt, blah blah blah. OrangeManBad! is all we've heard for over a decade now. The worst person to have ever lived!

And.... they still can't beat Orange Hitler/Satan without massive fraud, rewriting the election rules, a worldwide pandemic, and more. They haven't even been successful at killing him, despite numerous attempts to do so.

Just how bad of candidates do Democrat have that the nation is saying "I'd rather have Orange Hitler than the Democrat, thank you!"

Iman said...

Save that shit for Democrats’ demographic of wild-eyed, frothing-at-the-mouth, ne’er do well jackalopes to choke down.

Peachy+2 said...

The dems sure do like to lie to themselves.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"Democrats claim Trump is inbred Hitler"

For every Southern conservative democrats slime as inbred, there's actual cousin-fuckers running under their flag in Maine.

The pure projection party.

Big Mike said...

From the introduction:

“Here is the section that the author of the Democratic Party’s 2024 autopsy says was missing when the Democratic National Committee released a draft of the overall document in May. The party denied ever receiving the chapter.”

In other words, the Democrats don’t bush lie to the voters. They even lie to each other. Or should I have written that they ESPECIALLY lie to each other.

Peachy+2 said...

I got your autopsy right here

Peachy+2 said...

ICE watch. People willingly train to harm, intimidate and harass ICE and Police agents. That IS the democrat party

AnotherJim said...

"What democrats now have to accept is no matter the circumstances, the party should be strong enough and capable enough to elect anyone - the proverbial ham sandwich."

They tried that at least twice. With the mysterious COVID votes, it worked out for them. The second time, the dogs saw that the sandwich was too far gone and they wouldn't eat it.

Big Mike said...

From the (allegedly missing) chapter:

“There was a barrage of garbage "polling" from the right, claiming a "red wave" in opposition to
Joe Biden - yet the "wave" never materialized because it was never actually real.”

The polling was accurate, but in 2022 the NRCC was in the hands of Tom Emmer, who would need to cheat on an IQ test to get himself up to 3 digits.

Peachy+2 said...

More Democrat Party corruption.

Never forget the corrupt left under crook puppet Joe let in millions of illegals. Without illegals - the dems would die.

hombre said...

NYT probably won’t publish this one:
“All the hullabaloo about Democrat troubles are nonsense. This is the Party that put a mentally unsound man in the White House in 2020 with a record number of votes. This is the Party that opened our borders to millions of undocumented, unvetted immigrants. This is the Party whose elite won’t tell us, “What is a woman?” This is the Party that nominates and elects socialists nationwide. This is the Party running our cities into the ground. And much, much more. Yet, this Party still leads in generic polls. This might be because the media runs cover for them with 90%, or so, negative stories about the other guys. Or maybe their voters simply don’t care what they do. Or maybe Trump, Trump, Trump (Really?).

Dogma and Pony Show said...

Here's my advice to dems that you won't read anywhere else: You guys are relying way, way, way too much on the idea that voters just want a candidate "who cares about people like me." All things equal, sure, I'll take a candidate who cares over one who doesn't. But what I really want is a candidate who has policies that make sense. For example, you can't let 10 million unvetted illegals into the country and yet earn my vote nevertheless because you come across as someone who "cares about people like me." Because not everyone is retarded, and not everyone is looking to government as a substitute for having good friends and a loving family, you need to satisfy me, the American voter, that you will be pursuing policies that actually hold some promise of improving the country rather than things that are evil and harmful but are presented by someone who "cares."

Wilbur said...

For an election autopsy, it sounded pretty polemical to me. It just seems to be another refusal to accept or even consider that the dogs don't like the dog food.

boatbuilder said...

I got about halfway through. Reads like an AI was told to analyze American electoral politics based solely on watching every episode of "The View." Yeesh.

Peachy+2 said...

More autopsy right here

Peachy+2 said...

Posted again
How democrats and their base operate

Smilin' Jack said...

Makes me miss Hunter S. Thompson. A 2024 “Fear and Loathing” would be great.

Peachy+2 said...

Why won't the GOP ban the left's programs to give drivers licenses to Illegals?
total insanity.

John henry said...

When I saw the headline, I thought it was about the autopsy of the wife of Dr Jill's 1st husband. First autopsy revealed no foul play. 2nd autopsy is locked up tighter than a tick. Which is, incidently, how tightly Bill Robinson is locked up, on $2mm bail.

"Never fuck with a Biden" - Joe Biden

BTW: Fun fact from following the story, Bill Robinson is a member of the Delaware Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Betcha didn't even know there was such a thing.

John Henry

Peachy+2 said...

Obama's people said -- 'Not one vote was shifted by the Russians in 2016.'
And yet they continue to lie.

The Russians, Iran and the Chi Coms all want Trump dead. Just like the corrupt democratic power brokers, and their antifa thugs.


While we all know votes were shifted to Biden in 2020... with weeks long "counting" ballot box stuffing with untraceable no chain of custody ballots... etc.

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