The labor movement is in the most dire straits it has been since the 1920s. They have no support from anybody with power. Their longtime ally, the Democrats, are now solidly the party of management, of companies operating global supply chains, and of knowledge workers who want their Amazon packages delivered on time. As a result Biden will face no meaningful backlash from his party for knifing railroad workers in the back: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/01/joe-bi....
At the same time, the GOP's support of its growing working class base is merely lip service. There's lots of fluff pieces about "the New Right" and moving beyond zombie Reaganism, but the fact is that the party is structurally incapable of achieving any policy wins for those voters. Indeed, the GOP elite would love nothing more than to ditch rail workers in Ohio and win back upscale suburbanites in Westchester or Arizona or Georgia.
At the same time, the GOP's support of its growing working class base is merely lip service. There's lots of fluff pieces about "the New Right" and moving beyond zombie Reaganism, but the fact is that the party is structurally incapable of achieving any policy wins for those voters. Indeed, the GOP elite would love nothing more than to ditch rail workers in Ohio and win back upscale suburbanites in Westchester or Arizona or Georgia.