So, I posted my concerns about pretty much most of these f*ck-ups while the disastrous campaign was unfolding. And I still voted for #KamalaHarris because I knew how bad #TrumpSucks and #Project2025 was. But a lot of votes were disgusted enough by establishment Dem shenanigans and flip flopping that they stayed home and didn't vote! LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES! [And yes, I'm talking about 2016 in particular!]
Autopsy Says #CorporateCapture, Support for #Genocide Were Key Factors in Democratsâ 2024 Disaster
âHarris and the Democratic Party leadership prioritized the agendas of corporate donors and gambled on a centrist path, while largely abandoning working-class, young, and progressive voters.â
by Jake Johnson, Dec 11, 2025
"As the Democratic establishment slow-walks its own assessment of what went wrong in last yearâs elections, an outside autopsy released Thursday argues the partyâs failure to sufficiently appeal to and mobilize working-class voters as well as its complicity in Israelâs genocide in #Gaza were key factors behind the failure to prevent President Donald Trump from securing a second White House term.
The report, authored by journalist Christopher D. Cook and published by the progressive advocacy group #RootsAction, argues there were five primary reasons for former Vice President #KamalaHarrisâ loss to Trump:
- Harrisâ loss of nearly 7 million voters who backed Joe Biden in 2020;
- Bidenâs refusal to exit the top of the ticket until just months before the election;
- The Democratic Partyâs decision to prioritize courting so-called moderate Republicans and corporate donors over organizing working-class voters;
- Support for #Israelâs genocidal assault on Gaza; and
- The loss of young-voter support.
"Cook acknowledges that certain 'external factors' impacted the 2024 contest beyond the Democratic Party or the Harris campaignâs control, including 'immense special-interest spending to manipulate votersâ information and perceptions on social media platforms' such as Elon Muskâs X and racism and sexism, which 'certainly disadvantaged' the former vice president.
"But ultimately, Harrisâ campaign and the leadership of the Democratic Party 'bear responsibility for Trumpâs return to the White House,' the report says.
" 'This was a preventable disaster, but Harris and the Democratic Party leadership prioritized the agendas of corporate donors and gambled on a centrist path, while largely abandoning working-class, young, and progressive voters,' Cook said in a statement.
"The report places significant emphasis on the Harris campaignâs fateful decision to openly appeal to Republican voters in the hope that some would abandon Trumpâa strategy that Hillary Clinton pursued during her 2016 presidential bid, to disastrous effect.
"Cook points to the Harris campaignâs embrace of former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as the most galling example of this strategy. đ€ą
" 'Harris and Cheneyâa Republican who had become a pariah in her own partyâcampaigned for several days together,' the report observes. 'On the campaign trail, they repeatedly hit high-minded themes about the threat that Donald Trump posed to American democracy, while scarcely speaking to votersâ more urgent concerns about the state of the economy.'
The campaignâs gamble that it could appeal to potential GOP swing voters while keeping the Democratic base intact âproved to be a huge mistake,â the report says, arguing the approach muddied âDemocratsâ message about economic inequalityâ while âconsuming valuable campaign resources that should have been spent on a more robust base turnout operation.' "
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/democratic-party-2024-autopsy
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