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The DNC’s Autopsy of the 2024 Election Was Devastatingly Accurate.
The People Who Need To Hear It The Most Call It Fake News.
I’ve been told on multiple occasions by numerous progressive groups in the aftermath of the 2012 election that the GOP did an autopsy of why Mitt Romney had lost against Obama, what those weaknesses were and that they chose to ignore them. Progressive Democrats chose to argue years later this was a moral flaw and proof of the GOP’s failings — while ignoring, as they have done, the results of the 2016 election that followed.
For that reason when Ken Martin, the head of the DNC, finally released the official (albeit still incomplete) autopsy of the reasons Democrats lost in 2024, I was neither shocked nor angered that the loudest voices of the left did more than ignore what it said, they basically said that the people who’d painstakingly performed it had no idea what they were talking about.
I’ve known for a long time that when it comes to election denialism the progressive left makes anything that Trump or his colleagues say or do look like sane, rational people. They have spent an incredible amount of time and energy arguing, with a straight face, that the conservative revolution is either a complete illusion and that America not only still wants liberal…






