The Democratic Party Is Making a Big Mistake |
These are no longer such dark times for the Democratic Party. Donald Trump’s rank incompetence and the economy’s stubborn inflation have handed Democrats an obvious opening. Almost every election result in November was good for them, and Republicans no longer seem to have the upper hand in the gerrymandering wars. All signs point to a brutal midterm for the GOP: It’s the party in power, and Trump is not popular. Barring a remarkable shift in the national mood and the dynamics underlying modern American politics, Republicans will lose control of the House. They’ll probably keep the Senate because Democrats have lost so much ground in rural states, but a flip of the upper chamber is no longer beyond the realm of possibility.
It’s in this environment that Ken Martin, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made the terrible decision to shelve the report on the autopsy of the 2024 election the party had performed. Had the report become public, it wasn’t clear it would have been entirely honest; Martin made it clear he was not interested in revisiting Joe Biden’s initial decision to seek another term and then, after a disastrous debate performance, hand the nomination to Kamala Harris. Still, the report appears to have value. Party officials conducted more than 300 interviews with Democrats in all 50 states to create a document that Martin had once pitched as pivotal for the future. There were reportedly tactical findings, like that so-called peer-to-peer text messaging had not actually generated meaningful........