DNC Autopsy Report Concealment
This 'critique' leverages the DNC's operational failures and lack of transparency to install the specific policy demands of a fringe progressive activist group, using the election loss to settle ideological scores.
Author demands DNC transparency and public candor to 'disrupt the party’s repeated compulsion of making the same mistakes'.
The author is simultaneously director of RootsAction, which released its own 'autopsy' designed specifically to promote their pre-existing political platform (anti-corporate, anti-Israel policy shifts).
The contradiction: The DNC is protecting insiders; the author is protecting his specific ideological playbook and attempting to leverage his organization’s report as the only legitimate 'truth'.
Summary
The article frames the DNC's decision to withhold its 2024 election autopsy report as symptomatic of an elitist establishment unwilling to accept accountability for supporting the Biden-Harris ticket. This resistance to transparency is immediately contrasted with the 'cogent' findings of the alternative autopsy produced by the author's organization, RootsAction. The real agenda is forcing the Democratic Party structure to adopt specific left-wing policy demands—notably demanding an arms embargo on Israel ('Gaza effect') and combating 'corporate greed'—by framing the establishment's rejection of these issues as the sole cause of electoral defeat.
⚡ Key Facts
- DNC chair Ken Martin withheld the official 2024 autopsy report, claiming public release would be a 'distraction' from winning future elections.
- The author, Norman Solomon, is director of RootsAction, an organization that released its own competing autopsy, 'How Democrats Lost the White House'.
- RootsAction’s key findings blame the loss primarily on Biden’s insistence on running, failing to challenge corporate donors, and Harris’s refusal to shift policy on massive arms shipments to Israel.
- The critique serves to legitimize progressive insurgents (AOC, Tlaib, etc.) while demanding the ousting of centrist/corporate party leadership figures who engineered the 2024 campaign.
DNC Autopsy Report Concealment
The DNC is protecting insiders; the author is protecting his specific ideological playbook and attempting to leverage his organization’s report as the only legitimate 'truth'.