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The action by the DNC to block the public viewing of its internal autopsy report on the 2024 election seems shocking yet not surprising. Opposed to hard truths, the DNC often functions closer to a communications shop rather than a political organization committed to cultivating local power capable of prevailing at the polls.

A Culture Resistant to Internal Critique

Hesitant to challenge the party establishment's culture demanding unity, the committee has stayed within the Biden-Harris shadow throughout this past year. Making public the findings would have indicated that the leadership truly desire to encourage public discourse regarding the strategic failures that enabled Donald Trump to become president again. Instead, the DNC is proceeding as if there's nothing to understand from the stunning loss from the last cycle.

The top priority: will this lead to victory? Should the answer be negative, it’s a distraction from the core mission," a justification reportedly given to justify concealing the document.

Key Issues an Autopsy Might Have Addressed

Any valuable post-mortem worth its salt would confront certain uncomfortable matters. Among them are:

• Electoral Disengagement: Losing among millions of voters that backed the Democratic ticket in 2020 was decisive in the narrowly decided recent race.
• The Decision to Run: The determined decision by a party leader to seek re-election, alongside a last-minute exit, is viewed as denying Democratic voters the chance for a genuine choice.
• Failing the Working-Class Base: During a time of economic anxiety, the electoral effort reportedly bowing to elite contributors without successfully attempting to address the effects of corporate greed.
• The Foreign Policy Factor: The failure to reconsider a policy position concerning a major international conflict reportedly led to losing significant blocs, notably with youth voters, Arab American communities, Muslim voters.
• Losing Youth Backing: Extensive evidence demonstrates a major drop-off in Democratic support from voters aged 18-29.

A Pattern Avoiding Accountability

The decision to withhold is consistent with a longstanding habit of sidestepping uncomfortable facts. This mirrors an episode in which the vast majority of Democratic officeholder in Congress went along with a sitting president's determination to running for re-election right up until a disastrous public debate performance compelled a reversal.

At the same time, a significant majority of the electorate were continually telling pollsters that they opposed the incumbent to seek re-election.

Campaign Spending Concerns

An honest report might also examine matters about campaign spending, including what sums flowed to high-priced advisors and advertising contractors during an electoral effort that burned through a staggering sum over a few months.

A Larger Implication

At its core, the suppression surrounding this report highlights a submission toward the existing power structure who engineered a disastrous national race. The signal to rank-and-file members – which includes countless dedicated activists – appears to be that they cannot have a right to see what party chiefs say they discovered based on an analysis based on feedback from all states.

A party incapable to critically review its own failings finds it difficult to climb out of the cycle which was so advantageous to their opponents.