“I’m old enough to remember when Black Lives Matter shut down highways and the right responded with laws making it easier to run protesters over—and get away with it!”
Some of those construction workers were likely just there for the hippie-punching, but this was also about politics, class, and culture. Today, the hard hats would be associated with the political right, but these were mostly socially conservative Democrats and old-school union guys .
But if people on the right are now embracing these working-class protesters for sticking it to the man, people on the left are eschewing them., “And yet these truckers have not been embraced by the left. Instead they have been tagged as fascists and racists by progressive pundits, activists, and politicians—those who tweeted ‘Stay Home! Slow the Spread!’ while truckers delivered their Amazon Prime packages.
Ungar-Sargon credits the Freedom Convoy for “fulfilling Marx’s fantasy,” which only reaffirms this conservative’s visceral suspicions about this protest movement and its tactics. Having said that, she’s absolutely right to say that the truckers are being “smeared by the very people who claim to prioritize the working class.”
For decades, the Democratic Party was the party of organized labor and the “working man,” while the Republican Party was called the “party of business” or “the rich.” That image has flipped in a lot of ways in recent years, and this is both a blessing and a curse for the GOP.
Personally, I’ll keep the tax cuts and Supreme Court Justices, thank you very much. But don’t expect to see me at your next sit-in.
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