Bill Clinton gave the Unions (what was left of them) to Trump.

If Americans have short memories, then Democrats have no memories at all. My Grandfather’s were both Democrats because they were union men. One worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad out of Newark New Jersey and one in a machine shop in Clevland Ohio. They fought for things we now take for granted; five day workweek, overtime, health and safety rules, and on and on. They never met, but they were brothers in a struggle for workplace fairness and decency.

Then Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party bosses flushed all that work down the toilet.

The GOP understands how important labor unions are to the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party, historically, has not. If you want a two-sentence explanation for why the Midwest is turning red (and thus, why Donald Trump is president), you could do worse than that.

With its financial contributions and grassroots organizing, the labor movement helped give Democrats full control of the federal government three times in the last four decades. And all three of those times — under Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama — Democrats failed to pass labor law reforms that would to bolster the union cause. In hindsight, it’s clear that the Democratic Party didn’t merely betray organized labor with these failures, but also, itself.