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After securing re-election in 2012, Obama founded Organizing for Action (OFA), a nonprofit designed to push his personal agenda from outside the party structure. The group quickly became a rival to the Democratic National Committee for influence and fundraising.
“Though Organizing for Action never realized his vision, it competed with the party for power and money,” Allen and Parnes wrote. “He left the Democratic Party far weaker than he found it. Or, as one black party operative put it, ‘Obama destroyed that s***.’”
Instead of strengthening the party, Obama worked around it—and it showed. When his presidency ended, the Democratic Party was a political skeleton, barely standing in many states and completely wiped out in key rural and blue-collar regions.
Desperate to fix the damage, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and DNC leaders scrambled to rebuild the machine. They saw the warning signs clearly—Bernie Sanders’ movement had energized the far-Left and was threatening to take control.
So the establishment doubled down. “By helping install party loyalists at the national and state committees over the course of years, these establishment Democrats kept progressive outsiders at bay. ‘You know who did that?’ said one Black Biden ally familiar with the maneuvering. ‘Bill and Hillary mother***ing Clinton,’” Allen and Parnes revealed.
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The book also exposes a significant fracture between Obama and current Vice President Kamala Harris. Obama reportedly didn’t believe she could defeat Donald Trump, and only offered his endorsement days after Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race. That delay left Harris fuming and created a rift that needed mending.
The book, built on interviews with over 150 political insiders, paints a vivid picture: the Obama legacy isn’t just about soaring speeches and media adoration. It’s about a hollowed-out Democratic Party that’s still struggling to find its footing almost a decade later.
While many on the Left still treat Obama like royalty, Fight shows that the scars he left behind may take generations to heal. In many ways, Democrats are still picking up the pieces—and wondering if the price of his popularity was the destruction of their own power.
