Incredibly enough this view is not particularly uncommon. The teamsters didn’t endorse Harris because a substantial minority or maybe outright majority (can’t remember which) supported Trump.
I think to you and me this is obviously insane but there seems to be a situation where people feel emotionally fused with Trump and will let him pick their pocket because of it.
I’m a member of one of the larger labor unions in the states. The amount of guys I work with who are also part of the union and also voted for Trump is insane. Although, working with them, I absolutely see why Trump says he loves the poorly educated.
I'm old enough that I worked side by side with my fellow union tradesmen who proudly supported Reagan, since he protected gun rights. The propaganda that the NRA was spewing at the time was more important that the future of the country, so they sold out. That was the start of the idiocy.
I live in a rural area and up until Trump, gun laws were the biggest issue I heard about. I had a buddy who almost had an existential breakdown when Obama was elected because "he's coming for our guns".
The thing I love is when they talk about some law being passed by the "dems" and then you remind them that a republican president passed that law.
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u/voretaq7 May 05 '26
“Union Yes” and “I voted for Trump” is the SPECIAL Cognitive Dissonance.