Shocking: PBS Takes Up DNC Autopsy of 2024, But Only As a Helpful Chat to Fix Things #Political
The Friday night Week In Politics segment of the PBS News Hour is almost always focused on blasting Trump, week after week. So it was shocking when they took up the DNC “autopsy” of their 2024 losses, allowing MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart to lecture Democrats to stop internal fighting…minutes after he mocked the Republican resistance to Trump as a “one-cell organism.”
WILLIAM BRANGHAM, host: We also saw this week this very ham-handed release of the DNC's autopsy. This is basically an unfinished document that -- I mean, if a high school or college student had submitted this thing, you would give them an F if you were feeling generous. What does this tell you about the Democratic Party?
JONATHAN CAPEHART: Well, what this tells you is why the Democratic chairman didn't want to release it. I just called it a trash can of warmed-over conclusions with none of the introspection of, say, the autopsy of 2012 when Mitt Romney lost to President Obama.
Recall that Donald Trump won in 2016 by ignoring the general conclusion of the 2012 RNC report, that the GOP had to work harder to appeal to minority voters, for example. Then came the lecture:
PBS News Hour surprisingly asked Jonny Capehart about the DNC's awful autopsy, and he lectured Democrats to stop internal fighting…minutes after he mocked GOP resistance to Trump as a “one-cell organism.” They root for internal warfare among Republicans, and discourage it in… pic.twitter.com/0HxH19zI4Y
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 25, 2026
CAPEHART: I think right now what Democrats need to do is stop with the fighting with each other, looking at this at this terrible -- whatever this is, this autopsy, such as it is, focus on the here and now. And what the leadership of the Democratic Party should be doing is figuring out how to channel the anger, the palpable anger among Democrats into what their priorities are going to be if they take back the House and maybe even if they take back the Senate, and then how they're going to drive that to '28.
PBS also interviewed former Bernie Sanders strategist Faiz Shakir on Thursday’s News Hour, but it had that sound of two Democrats hashing out how to fix things. Bennett introduced him as "our friend." Shakir talked about the need for “hard conversations,” but they weren’t having them.
Bennett opened by noting this report “does not mention Mr. Biden's age or the war in Gaza and how opposition to it may have depressed Democratic enthusiasm,” but they didn’t discuss Biden scandals or Harris failures or leftist extremism turning voters to back Trump.
Bennett's questions were just conversation starters:
PBS anchor Geoff Bennett asked leftist Dem strategist Faiz Shakir friendly questions about the awful autopsy by the DNC, such as: "Is part of the problem here that Democrats are facing a Republican Party that rewards power and grievance and not traditional policy arguments?" pic.twitter.com/wzOISAshdL
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 25, 2026
There's a striking line in this report suggesting that Democrats became too dependent on what is called in this report negative partisanship, essentially asking voters to fear Republicans rather than believe in Democrats. Is that a fair criticism?
….Kamala Harris could not be accused, though, of not having policy prescriptions. I mean, it is part of the problem here that Democrats are facing a Republican Party that rewards power and grievance and not traditional policy arguments?
….But how do Democrats move forward from here? And frankly, do they need a DNC, a strong DNC to win the presidency? The DNC -- Barack Obama didn't rely on the DNC much at all.
Naturally, a socialist is going to advocate more socialism a la Mamdani as the winning formula against what he called the "Epstein class":
SHAKIR: The way you choose to decide what are your values, what you care about is when you say to Jeff Bezos, we're going to tax the rich. And then Jeff Bezos gets very angry and upset about it. [As if Bezos doesn't pay billions in taxes.]
And you see what's going on with Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Why is his popularity increasing? Because he is comfortable in the friction. He is saying, here's a vision. Here's how we can increase taxation. Here's how we can provide childcare. Yes, some people can take me on. But are you with me or are you with the corrupt class? And that is a kind of a leadership that I think we need more of across the country.
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