Hi Friends,
Last year – when the Democratic National Committee kept delaying its promised autopsy on the 2024 election disaster – RootsAction decided to take matters into our own hands. We teamed up with progressive journalist Christopher Cook to produce “Autopsy: How Democrats Lost the White House.”
RootsAction released that autopsy five months ago. When the DNC finally released its own autopsy last week, the response from journalists and activists was almost completely negative. As RootsAction national director Norman Solomon wrote in The Guardian, “not even the DNC chair could defend it.”
Norman’s article added:
The report evades discussing a pair of key political decisions, which enabled Joe Biden to run for re-election until it was too late – and then coronated Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee without any process involving Democratic voters….
But the most extreme evasion in the autopsy is the dodging of the crucial importance of the Gaza genocide. In this way, the autopsy is in keeping with how the DNC has continued to function…. In an autopsy of close to 50,000 words, not one of them is “Gaza,” or “Palestinians” or “Israel” or “genocide.”
In sharp contrast, the RootsAction autopsy confronts the Biden-Harris support for the genocide in Gaza and critiques the Democratic corporatism as well as militarism that led to Donald Trump’s victory.
Clarity about how we got here is crucial for creating a better future. That’s why we hope you’ll take a look at RootsAction’s autopsy “How Democrats Lost the White House” and share it widely.
