Democratic Party autopsy

It's time to revisit this 2017 report, since it attempted to set the Party back on track after losing to Twitler in 2016. A key element from the Executive Summary is the following: 

"The Democratic Party’s claims of fighting for 'working families' have been undermined by its refusal to directly challenge corporate power, enabling Trump to masquerade as a champion of the people. 'Democrats will not win if they continue to bring a wonk knife to a populist gunfight. Nor can Democratic leaders and operatives be seen as real allies of the working class if they’re afraid to alienate big funders or to harm future job or consulting prospects.'"

To remedy it they suggested the following:

"'What must now take place includes honest self-reflection and confronting a hard truth: that many view the party as often in service to a rapacious oligarchy and increasingly out of touch with people in its own base.' The Democratic Party should disentangle itself — ideologically and financially — from Wall Street, the military-industrial complex and other corporate interests that put profits ahead of public needs." 

The updated 2018 report noted the following:

"Corporate power continues to dominate the party. [...] the DNC and the Democratic  Congressional Campaign Committee continue to freely take big corporate donations. [...] The reality of corporate leverage over the party remains largely intact."

And here we are in 2021, not much further down this road. And this is exactly why we the people are losing faith in the Party while still hoping the progressives can win a majority to change it. But when we lose faith in the Party overall that tends to move enough Democratic voters over to the other side instead of for more progressives in that Party, as witnessed by the 2016 election. And quite a few progressive analysts see the same dynamic happening all over again right now with the same likely result.