A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign. While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s “Democratic Autopsy” looks at how factors like “service to corporate power, hostility to the progressive wing of the party, out-of-control militarism [and] disconnection from the base of the working class” contributed to declining support for the party’s platform and candidates. “If you don’t examine real history, then you’re in a cycle that repeats the same problems,” says Norman Solomon, director of RootsAction, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss his organization’s findings.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Well, it was officially going to be released before the election in November this year. Then it was — the can was kicked down the road, and we were told it would be released by the end of the year. And that didn’t happen.

    They delayed the book so long, that they missed the window before the DNC realized it themselves and corrected course…

    Well, more accurately they ignored that long before. It’s been 11 months since they picked Martin.

    Pretty fucked up to ignore everything Martin has said and claim the DNC is “hiding” the things he frankly won’t shut up about, just because billionaire owned media won’t talk about it.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It all seems pretty plainly obvious. It’s not a truth that the DNC can pull and hide. They should have just released it. Cowards. Seems to indicate that they have no appetite to correct their mistakes. ‘Screw the base’ is the new platform.