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This action by the Democratic National Committee to block the public viewing of its internal post-election analysis concerning the 2024 election seems remarkable but to be expected. Averse to unpleasant candor, the DNC operates closer to a communications shop rather than a political organization devoted to building local power capable of prevailing at the polls.

A Climate Resistant to Internal Critique

Hesitant to break with the prevailing attitude demanding unity, the committee has remained within that legacy all through this past year. Making public the findings could have demonstrated that party leaders truly desire to encourage public discourse about the errors that paved the way for the former president to win re-election. Instead, the leadership is moving forward under the pretense that there is little to glean from the electoral catastrophe of 2024.

Our guiding principle: does this help us win? Should the answer be negative, it becomes a sideline issue from what truly matters," a rationale reportedly given to justify concealing the analysis.

Key Issues an Autopsy Could Have Addressed

An autopsy report worth its salt would confront key points of failure. Among them are:

• Electoral Disengagement: Losing of millions of voters who voted for the Democratic ticket in 2020 was decisive in the close recent race.
• A Decision to Seek Re-election: The unwavering decision of the incumbent to stay in the race, coupled with a very late step-aside, is seen by some as denying Democratic voters of a competitive nomination process.
• Abandoning the Working-Class Base: Amid inflation, the campaign allegedly bowing to corporate donors' interests while failing to address the effects of big business.
• The Foreign Policy Impact: An unwillingness to shift a policy position on the situation in Gaza reportedly led to alienating significant blocs, notably among youth voters, Arab American communities, Muslim voters.
• A Decline in Youth Support: Extensive evidence indicates a huge decrease of support for the party among young voters.

A Record Avoiding Accountability

Choosing secrecy aligns with a pattern of evading hard truths. It recalls a situation where the vast majority of elected Democrat in Washington supported a sitting president's determination to seeking another term until a catastrophic campaign event led to a change.

Meanwhile, large majorities of the electorate were continually telling pollsters that they opposed that candidate to seek re-election.

Campaign Spending Concerns

An honest analysis could investigate matters regarding where money went, including what sums went to party strategists and advertising contractors during an electoral effort that burned through a staggering amount over a few months.

The Underlying Implication

Fundamentally, the secrecy surrounding this report highlights an allegiance toward the established hierarchy that oversaw an unsuccessful electoral effort. The signal to ordinary supporters – including millions of dedicated activists – appears to be that they cannot have a right to see the lessons the leadership claim to have learned from hundreds of interviews drawing from feedback from all states.

An organization unable to honestly assess where it went wrong finds it difficult to escape the cycle that proved so advantageous to the winning candidate.