Organizing for Action was supposed to complement the Democratic National Committee. Instead, Democratic leaders say, it nearly killed the Democrats.
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It is difficult to overstate just how enraged state Democratic activists and leaders are with Organizing for Action (
OFA), the political and community-organizing army that grew out of
Barack Obama's presidential campaigns.
The nonprofit, which functions as a sort of parallel-Democratic National Committee, was founded to mobilize Democratic voters and supporters in defense of President Obama's, and the Democratic Party's, agenda. Instead, the organization has drawn the intense ire, both public and private, of grassroots organizers and state parties that are convinced that OFA inadvertently helped decimate Democrats at the state and local level, while Republicans
cemented historic levels of power and
Donald J. Trump actually became leader of the free world.
These intra-party tensions aren't going away, especially now that OFA "
relaunched" itself last week to protect the Affordable Care Act, boost turnout at congressional townhalls, and train grassroots organizers gearing up for the Trump era.
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