With support for unions at an all-time high, Trump and Biden are in a race to win the votes of the working class
US president Joe Biden at a United Automobile Workers picket line: Politicians of all stripes feel the need to appeal to the working class, a forgotten constituency in US politics. Photograph: Pete Marovich/New York Times. This didn’t seem a likely outcome of the 2020 Democratic primary, in which the party establishment, fearing the threat of socialist Bernie Sanders, consolidated in favour of Biden, the most conservative candidate in the race..
The Secret Teacher: ‘Selling the mentally taxing option of critical thinking to modern youngsters is often met with resistance’ Hawley or Trump’s supposed proletarian fever is based not in actual support for labour struggle or workers themselves, but rather in a kind of affective appeal to nostalgic images of American labour: the white man coming home from the factory, covered in oil or soot, propping up the post-war suburbs of great American cities. These ideas bear little resemblance to the actual working class of the US today, more likely to be a non-white woman working as a home healthcare aid than a steel worker.
Nixon was able to exploit real divisions within American unionism that had appeared over the previous 30 years of labour power, divisions over efforts to increase diversity in the trades and support for American intervention overseas. think the man has any bit of care about what our workers stand for, what the working class stands for