Usually, a report might become major news because of some kind of damning or inconvenient revelation that’s contained inside it. But the Democratic Party is currently in such disarray, it’s managed to turn even the act of simply releasing a report to the public into an embarrassing debacle.

The Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) autopsy report on what went wrong in 2024 was finally released last week, and it has quickly, and somewhat hilariously, plunged the party into an internal crisis, with DNC chair Ken Martin now facing calls to resign. I say “hilariously” because the reason for this has very little to do with what’s actually in the report and is entirely due to Martin’s extremely public bungling of the messaging around it.

To be clear, there’s plenty embarrassing about the report’s content too. But it’s revealing and emblematic of a Democratic Party that has been utterly in shambles the past year that the production and release of the report has become somehow a bigger controversy than what’s in it.