“NOBODY SCREWS WITH THE UNION” (EXCEPT REPUBLICANS)

It wouldn’t seem to be controversial to say that unions more traditionally support Democrats. Yet, in a curious twist of political fate, Republicans have been making significant inroads with the working-class electorate.  In fact, recent polling shows Biden and Trump were tied at 47% among union members in six key battleground states when asked who they’d vote for in 2024.  They’re All Lying to Us wonders, “what is behind this?” How is it that union workers have abandoned Democrats? Is it because of misinformation and disinformation spread via media and social media? Or was it Democrats who abandoned union workers? Let’s do a level set on unions and lower wage workers to see what truths we can pull from this mystery. By the way, the title of this article is drawn from the 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Eraser in which Joe Viterelli (pictured above) played an intimidating union boss.