When I fantasize about time travel, it's not really 1930s Berlin I am thinking of.

[maeve66]

This is my text to my brother-in-law this afternoon, and a link to Sean O'Brien's (President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters) speech to the RNC.

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"Have you watched it? [Redacted] commented that this one speech tipped the balance for him to think that Trump will be elected. Fuck."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDnocISOKc

Some comrade on the Soli list said it’s the speech the Dems won’t let Bernie make. Plus, of course, a HEFTY dose of American nationalism and patriotism. It’s so weird. There are so many echoes of what you could imagine a right wing labor populist/fascist saying. But at the same time, the Trump faithful, as someone pointed out, were hella lukewarm because they can’t applaud anti-corporate shit… these aren’t the actual poorer Trump base, at the convention. But working people beyond the base? Fucking hell. He avoided any immigrant bashing. I wish you’d watch it."

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There are a lot of white working people I grew up with that I can imagine gravitating towards that, in Wisconsin, who were anti-Trump and anti-Walker, but... He fucking applauded Josh Hawley for walking two picket lines in Missouri and 'changing his mind on Right to Work' (I fucking doubt it).

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[sabotabby]

That's what's been working here. Ford, though not as far-right as your average American Democrat, has positioned himself to be the Friend of the Working People and various unionists ate it up.