PBS NEWSHOUR: David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, including Democrats releasing a clumsy analysis of why they lost to Trump in the last election. <\/p>\n
WILLIAM BRANGHAM, PBS NEWSHOUR: 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, MS NOW: Well, what this tells you is why the Democratic chairman didn’t want to release it. And a source said to me early on before the release — why aren’t you releasing it? Does it have damning — does it doesn’t have damning information? Does it call on the carpet sacred cows within the party? And the person said, no, it’s just — it’s so poorly done that it would be horrendous to release it. Now that it’s out — and your description of it is terrific. 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. 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. But right now they’re not there yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n