Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

The Exquisite Corpse and the DNC Autopsy

Reality isn't coming easily to the Democratic consultant class.

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Rick Wilson
May 21, 2026
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So the Democratic National Committee has finally, mercifully, vomited out its long-overdue post-mortem on the 2024 catastrophe, eighteen months after the body cooled, and friends…you should read this thing. Not because it’s good.

Read it as a document from a party that would rather lose than offend elements of its own base. Read it as an indictment of a consultant class living on hopium from the glory days of Barack Obama. Read it as a fossil record of exactly why The Lincoln Project exists, why we keep showing up, and why the work isn’t optional anymore.

The report is titled “Build to Win. Build to Last.” A heroic title for a document whose Executive Summary section literally reads “This section was not provided by author.” The Conclusion? “This section was not provided by the author.” The Appendices? Same. The document is full of redactions and excisions. It’s the Epstein Files of political party autopsies.

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