Both men went to Michigan last week, each trying, in his own way, to take advantage of something rare in Presidential politics—a genuinely radical point of view.
An old Washington principle holds that, at any given moment, only two people in American politics really matter: the President, and whomever the President is arguing with. But last week President Joe Biden and his eternal partner in argument, Donald Trump, found themselves sharing the spotlight with a third party.
Behind the familiar positioning and chaos of the 2024 Presidential race, the economy is beginning a slow but profound transition, from being based on oil and gas to relying on renewable energy. The Biden Administration’s work to make this change happen, in the face of the climate crisis, is its most forward-thinking undertaking, and the Inflation Reduction Act, which worked to enroll automakers in the transition, has been its chief legislative accomplishment. The U.A.W.
That was enough to draw Biden to join the striking workers in Michigan last Tuesday. No sitting President had ever before stood on a picket line—not Obama, not Clinton, not F.D.R.—which itself suggests just how rapidly the Washington consensus on labor is changing. Biden, wearing a union ball cap and carrying a bullhorn, stood with Fain at the picket line.
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