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DNC’s hide-and-seek with the 2024 autopsy is emblematic of systemic problems

When the lead story in most Democratic Party circles for many weeks has been the so-called Autopsy of the 2024 election that DNC Chair Ken Martin promised to release, but held back for months and months to growing criticism and suspicion of a cover-up, I confess that I’m more worried now than ever before that the Democratic Party doesn’t know how to tie its own shoes.

Let me explain.

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The Autopsy itself was a flat nothing burger, a failure from cover to cover. Read it for yourself, if you have the stomach. (Available here.) Or take the word of others who have read all 192 pages and summarized it here, here and here. Personally, I only made it through the first 30-40 pages before I realized there was no reason to subject myself to this misery.

What I’ve concluded: Ken Martin recruited someone to prepare this so-called Autopsy who was unqualified and incapable of delivering anything close to an objective analysis of the Democratic Party’s failures in the 2024 election. The first misstep. Ken Martin wasn’t happy with the report that he received and decided to bury it. The second misstep. The DNC leadership circled the wagons to help Martin cover up this fiasco, and the resultant whitewashing, was the third misstep.

With all of these missteps, a casual observer must conclude that the Party leaders can’t tie their own shoes.