The Democrats' belatedly released autopsy of their 2024 defeat consists of little more than the usual blame-shifting and denial.

Political parties are the last sources of honest analysis of either their victories or defeats.

In reality, the Democrats lost the presidency because they made a series of truly atrocious decisions, each of which helped produce one of history's most improbable outcomes: Donald Trump back in the White House.

The first of those atrocious decisions was Joe Biden's choice of a thoroughly incompetent and unqualified running mate.

The same Democratic identity politics obsession that guided that choice of Kamala Harris would also make it difficult to later avoid making her the Democratic nominee once Biden dropped out after his debate debacle.

The second terrible decision was to take Biden's presidency from the outset in a radical leftward direction and thereby alienate those who had voted for him as a safe, moderate alternative to Trump chaos.

Biden's increasing unpopularity wasn't necessarily due to his increasing infirmity; rather, it was due to the way in which his increasing infirmity allowed his far-left advisers to use him as a figurehead to pursue policies like open borders, massive government spending that predictably caused a huge surge in inflation (at a time........

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