If you remember, back in July, right before the Republican National Convention, word broke that Sean O’Brien, feisty, obnoxious, and victorious president of the Teamsters Union, had been invited by none other than Donald Trump to speak at the convention.
O’Brien accepted the offer.
The collective gasps of horror and shock reverberated through labor, liberal, and GOP living rooms.
VURT DA FURK WAS HAPPENING?
And there he was, at the podium in Milwaukee, proudly doing his labor schtick.
It was a remarkable moment Monday night at the Republican National Convention, surely creating some amount of confusion among longtime Republicans, when Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, delivered a stemwinder of a speech in prime time. He called former President Donald Trump a “tough S.O.B.”
O’Brien did not endorse Trump, but he leaned into the incongruity of…
