The Democratic National Committee just released its nearly 200-page autopsy of the 2024 election disaster, and the result is somehow even more embarrassing than the loss itself. Party members are openly calling the report a "dumpster fire" — their words, not ours — and the infighting has reached levels that would make a Real Housewives reunion look civilized.
You know it's bad when the people who commissioned the report are the ones torching it. Pass the popcorn.
The report, overseen by DNC Chairman Ken Martin, was supposed to be a sober analysis of how Kamala Harris managed to lose to Donald Trump in what Democrats assured us was the most important election of our lifetimes. Instead, it landed with all the grace of a flaming dumpster rolling downhill. The document tried to walk a fine line between blaming the Biden-Harris administration and blaming the campaign itself, and ended up satisfying exactly nobody.
Congressman Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida, didn't hold back. "An autopsy is a medical procedure you do over a corpse, and now it sounds like we need a malpractice attorney," Moskowitz said. He added, "We lost the last election, it wasn't close, ok?" Finally, a Democrat who can count.
The report itself admitted that "the national campaign did not effectively drive Trump's negatives" — which is hilarious given that driving Trump's negatives was literally their entire strategy for three and a half years. They had the White House, the media, the cultural establishment, and Hollywood, and they still couldn't make it stick. Almost like voters cared about groceries more than January 6th hearings.
Independent journalist Chris Cillizza, no friend to conservatives, called the report what it was: "It is an utter disaster. And a failure on virtually every front." Democratic strategist Melissa DeRosa piled on, saying "It's difficult to properly communicate just what a dumpster fire this report was." When your own strategists are using the phrase "dumpster fire" in public, you don't have a messaging problem — you have a reality problem.
The report found that Democrats failed to connect with young men, Latino men, irregular voters, rural voters, and working-class Americans. So basically everyone who isn't a college professor or a blue-check journalist. The editors of the report were so unimpressed with its own analysis that they littered it with annotations like "No evidence provided," "Analysis not supported," and "Contradicts public reporting." That's right — the DNC's own editors fact-checked the DNC's own report and found it wanting.
David Hogg, who ran unsuccessfully for DNC Vice Chair, saw the carnage and went straight for the jugular: "Ken Martin should resign." Nothing says party unity like demanding the chairman's head before the ink is dry on the post-mortem.
Tommy Vietor, the liberal cohost of "Pod Save America," joined the chorus of Democrats who think the report is useless. The document tried to sound forward-looking with lines like "We either adapt to the changing conditions of the arena, or history will leave us behind," but adapting would require Democrats to admit that their problem isn't messaging — it's the message.
Here's what the autopsy won't tell them: voters didn't reject Democrats because of a bad ad buy or insufficient "negative framing" of President Trump. They rejected Democrats because Democrats spent four years telling Americans the economy was great while Americans couldn't afford eggs. They rejected the party that couldn't figure out the border, couldn't define a woman, and couldn't stop lecturing everyone about pronouns long enough to talk about paychecks.
The best part? They'll learn absolutely nothing from this. The report is already being memory-holed by the same people who commissioned it, and the circular firing squad will continue until morale improves. As reported by the Daily Wire, the Democratic Party's civil war is just getting started — and we've got front-row seats.
