Least Surprising Stories From the NYT – Labor Going Hard for Trump in Ohio
With the Sober, Moderate, Centrist Democratic Party offering NOTHING to working class voters beyond complicated, means tested tax credits, of course they’ll go for the anti-NAFTA nationalist.
Labor’s Disenchantment in Ohio Puts Even Democratic Veterans at Risk
As unions decline and their members maintain their affections for Donald J. Trump, Democrats like Representative Marcy Kaptur find their base of support eroding quickly.
TOLEDO, Ohio — Representative Marcy Kaptur, the blue-collar daughter of this blue-collar city, is on the cusp of a milestone: If elected in November to her 21st term, she will become the longest-serving female member of Congress, breaking Barbara Mikulski’s combined House and Senate record.
But for Ms. Kaptur, 75, a famously pro-union, old-school appropriator, the political ground has washed away beneath her feet. A new Republican-drawn district has robbed her of reliable Democratic votes on the outskirts of Cleveland. The national Democratic Party has saddled her with an agenda of phasing out internal combustion engines and the fossil fuels that power them that sits poorly in the region that put the first Jeeps into mass production.
And Donald J. Trump rattled the underpinnings of Democratic appeal to labor, with his trade protectionism, thundering denunciations of China and professed belief in job creation at all cost.
I’m sure the Squad will be blamed, but I think we all know what is going on.
It’s ironic because one of the only good things Biden has done was appoint Jennifer Abruzzo as General Counsel at NLRB.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166143/jennifer-abruzzo-nlrb-quiet-hero-biden-administration
This is the main reason we’re witnessing the greatest surge in worker organizing in 75 years.
I was a Teamster for five years and loved it, that being said most of my union brothers were conservative and dumb enough to think they got paid more because the were “better”. I love the surge of unions going on, but am also aware that many in unions also feed the Trumps of this world and buy the lies that come from them.
Because, as Jason said, Carter/Clinton/Obama ground working people into the dirt. They despise neoliberalism, which is perfectly understandable. Why would a truck driver like Clinton or Obama?
(My dad was a 36 year UPSer. I know a bit about the Teamsters )
Also, completely forgot to mention. One of the most successful organizers for ALU in Staten Island is an old longshoreman they call Uncle Pat (a.k.a. the Italian G.O A.T.).
He’s a Republican Trump voter organizing with Chris Smalls and Derrick Palmer (2 Black guys). Signed up nearly 500 workers (majority Black, Brown and immigrant).
Spoke alongside Bernie, AOC, Sara Nelson & Kshama Sawant at the Solidarity Sunday rally this past weekend.