Barack Obama destroyed the Democratic Party by competing for power and money with his own organization: new book

Former President Barack Obama sought to distance himself from the Democratic Party after leaving it in shambles following his departure from the White House, according to a new book.The book, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” published by William Morrow and Company, claims that Obama was never a Democratic Party loyalist.Instead, the authors allege, Obama curried favor from a group of “black professionals” for his campaigns, unlike former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and former President Joe Biden.Additionally, Obama’s creation of Organizing for Action — a nonprofit that launched in 2012 following Obama’s re-election to advance his legislative priorities — fractured the Democratic Party, according to the book, authored by political journalists Jonathan Allen of NBC News and Amie Parnes of The Hill.“Though Organizing for Action never realized his vision, it competed with the party for power and money,” the book said.

“He left the Democratic Party far weaker than he found it.Or, as one party operative put it, ‘Obama destroyed that s—.’”The book also detailed how the Clintons, along with Biden and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile and a few other party operatives, sought to “rebuild the party infrastructure” following Obama’s 2016 departure from the White House.

This meant preventing far-left Democrats from seizing control of the party and ensuring party loyalists ran the show, according to the book.“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 Biden ally familiar with the maneuvering.

‘Bill and Hillary motherf—ing Clinton,’” the book related.“Fight,” released Tuesday, also revealed how Obama remained hesitant to back former Vice President Kamala Harris ...