Lori Goldman, who leads the Michigan-based activist group known as Fems for Dems, was enraged when asked for her assessment of Democrat leaders.
"We need all hands on deck, and we're not getting it," she said. "There's no room or time or space to act like we're in normal times."
Klein, of Indivisible, is growing increasingly pessimistic that Democrat leaders in Congress are listening, even after his group took credit for town halls that shaped the debate on Capitol Hill.
"I was hopeful that they were coming over to our side to lead the opposition. And in the absence of that, I think you're going to just see distance between them and their own constituents grow and grow and grow," he said. "And that doesn't have positive consequences."