This critique comes mostly from inside the party’s own media. The theme holds 244 quotes from 52 voices across 72 videos. Among quotes with a known political leaning, 62% came from Far Left and Left voices and 16% from Right and Far Right voices. Pod Save America contributed the most quotes, followed by Brian Tyler Cohen, MSNBC and Real Progressives.

Much of the Brian Tyler Cohen material comes from his livestream of the DNC chair election, where candidates for the job discussed what had gone wrong. One called for the party to “break this consultant complex in DC” and to work with content creators instead.

The largest sub-theme, leadership and structural failure, holds 94 quotes. Decaying grassroots organizing follows with 54. A guest on BIG Media said the party needs to get back to “direct face-to-face voter contact,” and a Politically Speaking guest described voters who promised their support simply because someone finally knocked on their door.

A party that struggles to change

Two smaller sub-theme clusters, failure to learn and adapt and the party’s ideological echo chamber, hold 48 quotes each. The voices disagree about the cause. Pod Save America argues that Democrats deferred to activist and interest groups that did not represent the voters they claimed to speak for, then blamed the media and misinformation when they lost. MSNBC guests say the DNC let its 50-state strategy decay into an inside-the-Beltway operation. The Young Turks say the party establishment shuts down progressive movements and uses the left as a scapegoat.