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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.
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.
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
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.