The DNC’s Flawed Report Is Actually a Major Coverup

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Like all major historical events, the failure of the Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris to be elected president in 2025 is a story that began much earlier than when her $1 billion campaign began in early 2024.

This is a common explanation when there is a major institutional mistake.  World War II did not begin when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. It began after World War I, when the victorious Allies imposed onerous, impossible-to-pay reparations on the defeated Germans. The goal of the Allies was retribution. They wanted to subject Germany to huge financial and social strains that would teach it a lesson and prevent the resurrection of an aggressive military initiative.

The reparations worked, and Germany was plunged into a depression that lasted 34 years.  The obvious eye-for-an-eye retaliation provided the German army and its people with the rationale needed to rebuild their military-industrial complex.

The defeat of the weak candidate Kamala Harris to Donald Trump, a convicted criminal with 34 felony counts and a history of sexual abuse, was a stunning defeat for the DNC leadership.  The DNC proved it was wildly out of touch and inbred. They thought Americans would value morals, ethics, and professional-academic credentials over the promises of a snake oil salesman.  Michelle Obama’s naive claim at the Democratic Convention, “When they go low, we go high,” proved she was ignorant about her enemy, MAGA Republicans, who wanted to repeal the Emancipation Proclamation and everything that came after it. 

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This Harris loss began in the insulated and rarified atmosphere of elite Democrats who decided on their candidates behind closed doors.  The DNC and the top Democrats neglected to confront Joe Biden’s deteriorating mental state. Then, they covered it up, thinking that their own grass-roots followers wouldn’t notice Biden’s mental and physical frailty, especially when it contrasted daily to the more vigorous Trump, who walked taller, was more bombastic, and dominated the stage when compared to Biden.

Before Biden was named a candidate, his age was already a well-known defect. This is why Democratic leaders enlisted Barack Obama to convince Biden not to run. But in the rarified world of Dem politics, Biden said that because of his long career, it was his right to be the candidate, despite his obvious frailties.

The Dems succumbed to elitism and an unwritten rule that Biden had a lock on the nomination, even when there were better, more vigorous, modern candidates that could be publicly presented to the party.

But Obama and the DNC elite succumbed to Biden’s claim that he had a right to be the candidate. Biden’s indecision to step aside was a fatal flaw for the nomination process.  The Dems scrambled to find a candidate because of Biden’s stubbornness to resign. The Dems had to settle on the weak Kamala Harris, a lackluster senator and bland public figure, to be his vice president.

Today, Harris is known for her bright smile, ability to wave, walk, and clap her hands at the same time. During her four years as VP, she did not become a master of any policy issues and never had an authoritative, identifiable presence.

Whether that was intentional or not, Harris remained in the background, but perhaps that fit her personality. Today, Harris is still in the wings, waiting for another opportunity to be an elected official of some stature, but it looks like people recognize she missed her opportunity. It’s tough being an out-of-work elected official, but if a university or corporation offers Harris a job, she should take it.

An “Autopsy” for the Democratic Party?

The DNC “autopsy” report is a poor choice of words. The “autopsy” could also apply to the current Democratic Party, which lost its way when Bill Clinton became president, representing corporations, not the working class.  Clinton was a disgrace for his sexual escapades in the White House, and his policies moved the DNC to the right.

Barack Obama excelled at being a good orator who had no patience for politicking and getting votes from Congress.  As a legislator in the Illinois House of Representatives, he showed the same aloofness for doing the personal relationship thing to get votes.  His record in the Illinois Senate was dismal.  But he attracted the attention of the Pritzger family, who pushed him and bankrolled his campaign to the national level. Obama proved his corporate bias in his policies when he appointed Eric Holder to be his attorney general.

Holder was a corporate lawyer at the powerful Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, which defends white-collar criminals. Holder was a corporate lawyer before, during, and after he was named AG by Obama, yet he stood by Obama, who tried to present himself as a man of the people.  Obama’s other fatal flaw was that he thought he could make deals with the MAGA-Tea Party crowd.  Obama never realized he was dealing with modern-day Confederates who always wanted to revoke the Emancipation Proclamation.  It wasn’t until Trump’s second term that some high-level Black Democrats seemed to acknowledge this.  But then, the damage was done, and the steamroller was gaining speed.

So what does the DNC “autopsy” show?

It looks like the people who run the DNC now are the same losers who ran the party when Harris and her forgettable VP choice, Tim Kaine of Virginia, ran against the manic dynamism and fluid liar Trump. In the campaign, Harris and Kaine looked tongue-tied, desperately trying to deliver a message.  But any rational presentation against a sociopath like Trump requires much more powerful people than Harris and Kaine.

Worse, the DNC  sidelined the Progressives, like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and discouraged more progressives from delivering more powerful and honest populist messages than Trump.  If confronted on his populist plank, Trump looked like he had zero credibility. 

But the DNC hated their own Democratic populists more than they did Trump.  This same position was evident when Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who was Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, attacked Sanders more than Trump because she considered Sanders a greater threat to Hillary than Trump.  She was probably right, but the DNC would never give the main stage to Sanders, who could generate voter enthusiasm along with a powerful platform for action.  This was a big mistake for the DNC, but they had to curtail the progressives or risk losing their contributions from the billionaires who would be faced with a tax increase.  This is what happens when the DNC becomes beholden to its corporate donors.

So what good is the DNC “autopsy”?

Not much. It’s too little, too late.  It is incomplete and a poor excuse for a “report” from the nation’s main party.

In a report by Reid Epstein in the New York Times (May 22, 2026), MInority Leader Hakeem Jefferies of New York, made the spineless statement that the head of the DNC, Ken Martin, should be judged on his management ability at the ballot box.  Too bad no one told Hakeem that if voters vote against the Dems and their leader, Martin, at the ballot box, then it’s already too late.  With wimpy Dem leadership like Hakeem and Chuck Schumer, who needs enemies?

It’s no wonder that, as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, July 4th, most Americans have little hope for the future. The Trump-Maga gang is looting the government in broad daylight, while the DNC leaders cannot acknowledge that they lost this battle when Clinton was president 33 years ago.

It will take the country a few generations to recover from the damage the Trump regime has done to the federal government, its agencies, and the Supreme Court as Trump’s wars, tariffs, embargoes, and self-dealing derail the lies of millions worldwide.

In the meantime, the DNC is taking the evolutionary approach to its leadership changes.  Its current leaders will continue their uneventful political management careers, get their paychecks, and pensions until retirement parties are held and new blood is gradually allowed to enter the DNC sanctorum.

By then, the wealth gap between the top 1% and the other 99% will be too great to bridge, and the DNC will be swamped by historical events.

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