The Friday night time Week In Politics phase of the PBS Information Hour is sort of all the time centered on blasting Trump, week after week. So it was surprising after they took up the DNC “post-mortem” of their 2024 losses, permitting MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart to lecture Democrats to cease inside combating…minutes after he mocked the Republican resistance to Trump as a “one-cell organism.”
WILLIAM BRANGHAM, host: We additionally noticed this week this very ham-handed launch of the DNC’s post-mortem. That is mainly an unfinished doc that — I imply, if a highschool or faculty scholar had submitted this factor, you’d give them an F in the event you have been feeling beneficiant. What does this let you know in regards to the Democratic Social gathering?
JONATHAN CAPEHART: Nicely, what this tells you is why the Democratic chairman did not need to launch it. I simply known as it a trash can of warmed-over conclusions with not one of the introspection of, say, the post-mortem of 2012 when Mitt Romney misplaced to President Obama.
Recall that Donald Trump received in 2016 by ignoring the final conclusion of the 2012 RNC report, that the GOP needed to work tougher to enchantment to minority voters, for instance. Then got here the lecture:
PBS Information Hour surprisingly requested Jonny Capehart in regards to the DNC’s terrible post-mortem, and he lectured Democrats to cease inside combating…minutes after he mocked GOP resistance to Trump as a “one-cell organism.” They root for inside warfare amongst Republicans, and discourage it in… pic.twitter.com/0HxH19zI4Y
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) Might 25, 2026
CAPEHART: I believe proper now what Democrats have to do is cease with the combating with one another, this at this horrible — no matter that is, this post-mortem, similar to it’s, deal with the right here and now. And what the management of the Democratic Social gathering must be doing is determining tips on how to channel the anger, the palpable anger amongst Democrats into what their priorities are going to be in the event that they take again the Home and perhaps even when they take again the Senate, after which how they’ll drive that to ’28.
PBS additionally interviewed former Bernie Sanders strategist Faiz Shakir on Thursday’s Information Hour, however it had that sound of two Democrats hashing out how to sort things. Bennett launched him as “our buddy.” Shakir talked in regards to the want for “arduous conversations,” however they weren’t having them.
Bennett opened by noting this report “doesn’t point out Mr. Biden’s age or the struggle in Gaza and the way opposition to it might have depressed Democratic enthusiasm,” however they didn’t talk about Biden scandals or Harris failures or leftist extremism turning voters to again Trump.
Bennett’s questions have been simply dialog starters:
PBS anchor Geoff Bennett requested leftist Dem strategist Faiz Shakir pleasant questions in regards to the terrible post-mortem by the DNC, similar to: “Is a part of the issue right here that Democrats are dealing with a Republican Social gathering that rewards energy and grievance and never conventional coverage arguments?” pic.twitter.com/wzOISAshdL
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) Might 25, 2026
There is a putting line on this report suggesting that Democrats turned too depending on what is known as on this report damaging partisanship, basically asking voters to concern Republicans reasonably than consider in Democrats. Is {that a} truthful criticism?
….Kamala Harris couldn’t be accused, although, of not having coverage prescriptions. I imply, it’s a part of the issue right here that Democrats are dealing with a Republican Social gathering that rewards energy and grievance and never conventional coverage arguments?
….However how do Democrats transfer ahead from right here? And admittedly, do they want a DNC, a powerful DNC to win the presidency? The DNC — Barack Obama did not depend on the DNC a lot in any respect.
Naturally, a socialist goes to advocate extra socialism a la Mamdani because the profitable method in opposition to what he known as the “Epstein class”:
SHAKIR: The best way you select to resolve what are your values, what you care about is while you say to Jeff Bezos, we’ll tax the wealthy. After which Jeff Bezos will get very offended and upset about it. [As if Bezos doesn’t pay billions in taxes.]
And also you see what is going on on with Zohran Mamdani in New York Metropolis. Why is his recognition rising? As a result of he’s snug within the friction. He’s saying, this is a imaginative and prescient. This is how we are able to improve taxation. This is how we are able to present childcare. Sure, some individuals can take me on. However are you with me or are you with the corrupt class? And that could be a sort of a management that I believe we want extra of throughout the nation.
