Dave Cieslewicz

Poor Ken Martin doesn't know which way to turn. First, the DNC Chair commissions a report from a Washington insider consultant (always a great idea!) to review why Democrats lost in 2024. Then, after he sees a draft and doesn't like it, he announces nobody may see what he doesn't like. Now last week for some reason he goes ahead and releases the damn thing anyway, even while disavowing it. And, on top of it all, the report is useless because it doesn't even begin to address what's fundamentally wrong with the party. It's also poorly written.

Yesterday, I offered my own take on what an honest post mortem on the 2024 election would look like for the Democrats. I concluded that the best solution going forward would be to split the party into two sub parties — progressives and moderates — with each agreeing to come together behind one candidate after the primaries.

Citizen Dave will be taking the summer off from his blog to find a publisher for his next book project.

Last month when I announced that I'd be taking the summer off to develop a new book project, YSDA readers — and the YSDA adjacent — rejoiced.

When I shut down my blog for the summer I noted that I would occasionally comment on the Wisconsin governor's race.

It looks like we have the most convincing evidence to date that Sara Rodriguez is the front runner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

Since I last wrote about the Wisconsin governor's race a whole lot of water has rushed under the bridge. Let's review.

Being a socialist could well bury a candidate in the general election. The trouble for Democrats is that it could win a candidate their nomination in August.

At this point, based on the latest Marquette poll results , it looks like a certainty that Francesca Hong will be the Democratic nominee for governor. Tony Evers' Hail Mary in the form of David Crowley looks to be either falling to the end zone turf or being intercepted and run back the other way by Hong.

An article in yesterday's State Journal gave me some hope that the fall campaign between presumptive gubernatorial nominees Tom Tiffany and Francesca Hong might be more enlightened than I have thought. Okay, so probably not, but you never know.