This is the best move I’ve seen in a while: “Democrats Confront the Party’s Questionnaire-Industrial Complex.”

How many hours and how much agony do Democratic campaigns waste responding to multi-page, mind-numbingly detailed interest-group questionnaires loaded with political dynamite?

Jonathan Martin reports in Politico that, “Majority Democrats — a group of young Democrats that have won competitive races — want their candidates to know they shouldn’t feel obliged to complete the often-expansive advocacy group forms.”

One leader of Majority Democrats told Martin, “These questionnaires, and more broadly the interest groups, are hurting our chances of winning. They all have their own niche questionnaires, some of which are so broad as to be almost absurd, 20 to 30 pages of questions ….”

Amen.

Exhibit A: Kamala Harris’ damaging statement supporting taxpayer-funded trans surgery for prisoners, which Trump’s campaign exploited to brutal effect in 2024, was in response to an ACLU candidate questionnaire in 2020.

Did the ACLU really need to ask that question to decide whether a candidate was better than Trump?

I’ve helped too many campaigns labor over questionnaires, wrestling for endless hours over detailed questions about complex issues.

None of that helped win an election.

Get rid of them.

Good riddance.