It hasn't seemed that the DNC has been highly effective for quite some time. The last chairman, Jaime Harrison, got the position as a consolation prize for losing an election to Lindsay Graham, and I really couldn't figure out why, or how, that happened. Democrats did manage to pull off the 2020 election, bigger at the Presidential level than on the congressional level, which seemed to be a little disappointing, but then, the surprise came in 2022, when the GOP just didn't make the shifts happen according to long standing tradition regarding the party in power and the mid-term elections.

But how much of a factor was the DNC in that 2022 election? Looking back at what the media was saying, Harrison and the DNC are rarely mentioned. And looking at how some of those house races went, Democrats might have been able to hold the house as well, if the DNC had made a better and more coordinated effort.

I keep hearing that Democrats have trouble with messaging, and with controlling the narrative. That's my observation, from a purely amateur perspective, but it seems to match up pretty well with what the political experts and the analysts are saying. We seem to do a really good job of shooting ourselves in the foot right at the moments when we need to be the strongest, and clearest, and the most focused on what we are doing.

I'm already weary of deleting emails and text messages from Democrats raising money for their mid-term re-elections. It's June, those elections are 17 months away, and we have no coordinated, unifying presence in social media, in the media, or in Congress. Neither the DNC nor any specific political campaign had much to do with millions of people turning out for protests that have been pretty regular since the convicted felon was elected, and are getting much larger. The focus is on raising money for "me". I keep hearing from them that Trump is an existential threat to American democracy, and seeing fingers pointed at what he is doing, but I don't see anyone actually doing anything that I'd call meaningful or effective to stop him now.

We had four years. And we didn't do anything meaningful or effective to stop him then, either.

So the question is, are we up for the job?