DNC's Post-Mortem Denial

The American people deserve better than a choice between one party that's trying to solve problems and another that's trying to convince us those problems don't exist;

Douglas V. Gibbs ——Bio and Archives--May 23, 2026

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In what can only be described as a masterclass in self-deception, the Democratic National Committee has finally released its long-delayed post-mortem report on the 2024 election, and the results are as predictable as they are pathetic. After nearly two years of internal squabbling and what can only be described as an institutional paralysis, the nearly 200-page document manages to achieve the impossible: it analyzes a historic electoral defeat without mentioning the man who led the party into that abyss.

The irony is thicker than mud, and as clear as crystal

Let's be clear about what happened in November 2024. This wasn't a "barely lost" election, as the DNC would have us believe. This was an overwhelming repudiation of Democratic policies, leadership, and vision. President Donald Trump won decisively, not because of some fluke or because Democrats weren't "loud and proud enough," but because Americans rejected the WOKE, DEI, socialist-progressive agenda that has become the party's signature offering. The party went from JFK to Carter to Bill Clinton to Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders and AOC. It’s a decline that can be easily seen, but they are blind to it.

The irony is thicker than mud, and as clear as crystal. Here we have a party that claims to be "saving our democracy" while simultaneously subverting what they have argued are its most fundamental processes. They bypassed their own primary system, shoved a sitting president aside without voter approval, and replaced him with a vice........

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