As someone who has been politically active for a while now, it’s been curious to see how alliances have shifted in my lifetime, with some institutions once historically left now going right and vice-versa. Some will insist that Donald Trump caused this shift – others might argue this shift caused Trump.
Perhaps the clearest example of switching political dance partners is Corporate America and unions. Corporations embracing globalism abroad and mass migration at home has alienated blue-collar workers, providing Trump with the muscle to overpower the Republican Party into its current form. In the Democrats’ November post-mortem, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was quick to blame his side’s historic losses on this fact. Others on the left have shown no such self-awareness, doubling down on the unpopular issues that led to their defeat: transgenderism,…
