Former President Donald Trump repeatedly traveled to northeast Ohio to tell people that he’d save the jobs they still had or bring back the ones they’d lost. Not to be outdone, his successor, President Joe Biden, positioned the 2020 race as “Scranton vs. Park Avenue.”
Both parties claim to care about the working class. But it’s all nonsense.
As two stories from last week show, when ordinary working-class people band together to demand better wages, working conditions, and some kind of say in what happens on the job, neither party really has their back.