Democrats are seeing a surge in local activism. Now what do they do with it?
Average attendance at a Lexington Democratic Town Committee meeting used to be about 25 people. Now, it’s more than tripled.
Nearly 100 people filled the room when Arlington Democrats gathered to elect delegates to this year’s state convention — the highest turnout in more than a decade.
Even in Rehoboth, a Republican hamlet near the Rhode Island border, a sea of new faces filled the room when Democrats caucused just over a week ago — a surprise for the local party chairman, who thought he knew just about every Democratic activist in town.
“People are coming out of the woodwork,” said Raymond Olivier, chairman of what he calls Rehoboth’s “little” town committee. (There are about 40 people in its database.) “It’s kind of an exciting time.”
The wave of political dissent sweeping the country has surged through the ground floor of the Democratic Party as scores of people try to find ways to push back against the policies of President Trump.
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