After its traumatic collapse in the 2024 elections, the Democrat Party, doing some serious soul-searching, announced that it would conduct and publish a “post-mortem” analyzing the reasons for its defeat and providing suggestions for reversing the result in the future. The analysis was completed but never published, likely because it was determined that its publication would cause more harm and division than benefit.

Not surprisingly, given the nature of politics and politicians, the substance of the report leaked and was published by Axios and others. A significant portion of the blame was attributed to the inexcusable delay in replacing the obviously diminished, possibly demented, President, the failure to acknowledge the problem timely, and the imperious, undemocratic manner in which Vice-President Harris was designated to head the ticket.

But the Democrats remained befuddled by the loss; after all, they had all the most progressive and popular policies: open borders, defunding the police, DEI, antagonism to fossil fuels in favor of costly and inefficient technologies, including electric vehicles, relaxation of criminal laws and sentencing, opposition to climate change, coddling illegal aliens, failing to respond to the homeless problem. They were running against Donald Trump. How could they have lost?

Perhaps Biden and Harris were too soft on Israel? Yup. The report suggests that support for Israel was a key factor, focusing extensively on the Middle East and the failure of Biden and Harris to oppose Israel and get behind the beleaguered Palestinians in Gaza. This, suggested the authors of the report, alienated core and young voters. They reached this conclusion after consulting with, among others, a pro-Palestinian advocacy group, the IMEU Policy Project.

I have not seen the report. However, by virtue of some hard-nosed reporting and a good measure of imagination, I have been able to reconstruct a wholly fabricated transcript, not of the post-mortem itself, but of the deliberations concerning the strategy the party plans to adopt going forward, to avoid a recurrence of the 2024 disaster. Events have made these deliberations easy to........

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