Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Class

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 16, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET | Michelle Goldberg

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The most consequential moment from Donald Trump’s glitchy interview with Elon Musk on Monday came during a discussion of government cost-cutting. “Well, you, you’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk, before launching, apropos of nothing, into a reverie about how Musk dominates his employees. “They go on strike,” said Trump. “I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike and you say, ‘That’s OK. You’re all gone. You’re all gone. So every one of you is gone,’ and you are the greatest.”

Trump’s sympathy with plutocrats over unions is not a surprise, given both his record in office and his desperate desire for the approval and admiration of other billionaires. Though the ex-president made successful electoral appeals to the working class — particularly the white working class — his record on labor was that of a standard conservative Republican.

He appointed union busters to the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that enforces labor law. His Department of Labor reversed the “persuader” rule, which had forced transparency on companies waging anti-union propaganda campaigns. His Supreme Court appointees dealt a severe blow to public sector unions in the Janus decision, an outcome Trump celebrated. His signature policy accomplishment was a tax cut that disproportionately benefited the rich.

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"Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Class" - The New York Times

[Vision]

The author of the article.

[packrat35]

The New York Times whole operation ought to have to be listed on election reports as funding for the Democrat Party.

[packrat35]

Little emo hipster girl probably from a rich family herself, who hasn’t a clue on what paying real bills is like.

[Moltke]

Their premise seems to be to equate working class to unions. BS premise, BS follows.

Most actual workers (vs. slackers) can do without unions with their dues and corruption. Millions of independent contractors will laugh in your face if you mention unions.

Unions function to further the interest of the union; the top dogs get rich, everyone else is a sucker.

[Bullish]

Do you have to post these garbage articles here?

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Do you have to post these garbage articles here?

So you are more important than the 84 other people who have been interested in the article so far?

Go bury your head back in the sand where it belongs. The grownup want to know what the enemy is up to.

[Lisbon1940]

The working class appreciates a tough but honest boss.

[Bullish]

Insults huh? And you’re supposedly the grownup here?

Anyone who wants to read the NY times knows exactly where they’re at and all of us know the kind of garbage they are going to spew.

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Anyone who wants to read the NY times knows exactly where they’re at and all of us know the kind of garbage they are going to spew.

88 other people and counting were interested in it, but because you don't like it, it should be censored.

Do I have that right?

[Bullish]

I don’t think you have any of this even close to ‘right’.

Having a bad day?... Why so touchy over nothing?

[Rlsau1]

If unions are so great why don’t they set up their own employee owned businesses and compete with others? Answer: they can’t, competition is their worst nightmare.

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Stop posting garbage on this thread.

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I am just tired of bullies who think they can dictate what other people can do.

[right way right]

Don’t post it without a blood pressure warning.

[Bullish]

You need to relax.

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Don’t post it without a blood pressure warning.

This is not a serious person.

Anything it says should be ridiculed and laughed at.

Alinsky 101. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

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It’s a series person.
What C columnist or group of C editors this?
Daily series.
C: (Commie)
I find their propaganda entertaining.
Sometime it signals desperation but... they will take their lies all the way to hell trying to bring Commie glory, the utopia that never comes.

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Odd how all Commie leaders own multiple abodes.

[BiteYourSelf]

Spinning.
Spinning.
Spinning the lies away.🙄