You need to go where people are to speak to them - I can’t speak to their personal motivations but they ended up delivering a good message to a bunch of folks that would never normally hear it because unions are “lib’ruhl”.
He was stage managed and ended up simply giving bona fides to Trump’s “working man” schtick. It didn’t go well, it helped Trump, hurt democrats, and generally showed a hubris that ended up hurting the interests of labor unions.
Want evidence? Look how many people in this thread took exactly the opposite message from his appearance at the RNC. Whatever his intentions, the actuality of the situation harmed the cause of organized labor.
You need to go where people are to speak to them - I can’t speak to their personal motivations but they ended up delivering a good message to a bunch of folks that would never normally hear it because unions are “lib’ruhl”.
He was stage managed and ended up simply giving bona fides to Trump’s “working man” schtick. It didn’t go well, it helped Trump, hurt democrats, and generally showed a hubris that ended up hurting the interests of labor unions.
Want evidence? Look how many people in this thread took exactly the opposite message from his appearance at the RNC. Whatever his intentions, the actuality of the situation harmed the cause of organized labor.
Politics is pragmatics. He got beat.