The head of a Philadelphia taxi union, Alex Friedman, isn’t holding back in his campaign against Uber, which just started operating in the city. He told a city commission Tuesday night: “I try to equate this illegal operation of Uber X as a terroristic act like ISIS invading the Middle East . . . It is exactly the same menace.” That’s true, Alex, you can certainly try.

“The analogy does not strike me as all that apt,” Matt Yglesias of Vox notes.

This is hardly, one might note, the first inapt comparison or argument a union under siege has made.