The most gaping hole in the populist Republican worldview is its silence about — if not open hostility to — labor unions. EricLevitz writes
When he says he’s a friend to the working man, he’s just joshin’. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Donald Trump’s election dealt a fatal blow to the Republican Party’s conventional approach to economic rhetoric – while heralding a smashing victory for its conventional approach to economic policy.
Now, as the COVID-19 crisis has rendered Trump’s defeat in November more likely than not — and forced the congressional GOP to embrace sweeping government intervention in the economy — there is growing chatter about whether a “post-Trump GOP” might translate his irritable rhetorical gestures toward a “working-class conservatism” into a substantive agenda.
Hawley’s contempt for both corporate and regulatory power is consistent with a genuine — and genuinely broad-based — ideological tradition in the United States. One could trace its roots to the Jacksonian era, if not earlier. The small farmers of the early republic had a deep antagonism for the banks that demanded an outsize share of their work product in exchange for credit.
Chart: The New York Times Meanwhile, the most heavily Republican, working-class regions of the U.S. tend to be rural areas and/or low-density, post-industrial towns. The GOP’s pseudo-populists make a point of venerating these small communities and rejecting the idea that their residents should be forced to choose between living among kin and attaining prosperity. But the communities they rhetorically celebrate have been bleeding capital for decades.
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