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Originally Posted by goofyballer
Like, the unions that the Republican Party has been actively trying to kill for decades are all voting red now? I dunno dude, it's not like they called a truce on unions, they just lied and said they were gonna bring all the steel jobs back.
Why, because the GOP house isn't going to be making bills on abortion, guns, or gays that the GOP senate will pass (unless Democrats go full obstructionist)? Because President Trump will veto them?
Union members barely believe in unions anymore. They certainly haven't done a good job of protecting their jobs. At this point the hilarious thing about unions is that none of the workers who actually NEED a union have one (retail workers, restaurant workers, call center workers) and all of the workers who DON'T need a union seem to (government employees, extremely overpaid union workers in manufacturing, transportation, and highly skilled trades).
This moment is a major opportunity for the Republicans to jettison libertarians and pick up the unions. I think after this election the two parties will go from liberal vs conservative (a fight I'm genuinely more tired of than I am anything in the whole world) to populist vs establishment. Unions will definitely be on the populist side.
I think the GOP establishment being so anti Trump probably helped him get elected. Every time an establishment politician of either party said something bad about Trump I think it made the extremely unhappy people out there who think they are getting screwed a little more likely to vote for him.