Grassroots

Paid for by Hillary for America, a grassroots campaign of 1.2 million donors committed to electing Hillary Clinton (and keeping Donald Trump out of the White House).

This appears underneath a national promotion using the names and photos of Chelsea and Hillary Clinton. There is nothing “grassroots” about this.

My dictionary defines “grass roots” as:

the most basic level of an activity or organization: the whole campaign would be conducted at the grass roots | [ as modifier ] :  trying to improve the sport’s image at the grass-roots level.
• ordinary people regarded as the main body of an organization’s membership: you have lost touch with the grass roots of the party.

Grass roots are the opposite of a centrally coördinated effort.

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