The Democrats have always been a class-war party — but they have switched sides.
The Republican Party is slowly transforming itself into what the Democratic Party in Minnesota still calls itself: the Farmer-Labor Party. Donald Trump’s idiotic trade policies were actually pretty hard on many American farmers, but rural America is Republican America, and that shows no sign of changing. And while the big bosses of organized labor remain sycophantically committed to political serfdom under the party of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and other children of privilege who have never lifted anything heavier than money, rank-and-file members of the industrial and trades unions have shifted toward the Trump-era GOP and done so bigly: One much-remarked-upon analysis suggests that it was the swing in the union vote that put Trump over the top in 2016. That isn’t necessarily good for policy — Republican trade policy in the coming years almost certainly is going to be less Cato and more AFL-CIO — but the brute political facts are what they are.
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