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Neil Cavuto’s well-known Trump hate isn’t a secret; he’s never been shy about it. So, imagine the surprise—and, you can bet, the irritation—when the UAW president dropped a bombshell on Cavuto’s show. He announced that the vast majority of his members are backing Trump because he’s the “blue-collar” choice. There was a time when Democrats, not Republicans, were seen as the working class’s champions, standing up against corporate America and fighting for the little guy. Heck, that schpeel was the cornerstone of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren’s messages for years. But ever since Trump made his memorable entrance down the escalator, the political landscape has shifted dramatically. He’s branded himself as a president for the people, not billionaires. Contrast that with Biden and his team, who now seem to be the faces of corporate America. It’s a complete role reversal, something unimaginable for a typical “insider” candidate. Trump has certainly upset the status quo, and the rapid changes are a result of that. No wonder there’s such a frantic push to get rid of him. Again.

Be sure to catch the very end of the video, because that’s where Shawn Fain betrays his true feelings about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which appear to go quite against the public position that the UAW has taken, which is a tepid endorsement of Old Joe.

The switch-up in the Republican Party is impressive. But let’s be honest: it wouldn’t be the go-to party for the working class with fraudsters like Nikki Haley or Mitt Romney in charge. Trump’s whole “working class” vibe comes from his America First agenda; it’s all about not forgetting the regular Joe and Jane who got screwed over by the globalists. And this whole “Freaky Friday” swap between the parties is still going strong, with no signs of slowing down.

Liberal Patriot:

The same pattern of Republican domination of the working-class vote appears to be developing as we move toward 2024. The latest poll for which an overall college/noncollege split is available is the March Harvard/Harris poll. That poll, in which Trump has a small lead over Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, has Trump carrying the working-class vote by 10 points. In a DeSantis-Biden matchup, DeSantis has a similar lead over Biden and an identical 10-point advantage among working-class voters. (There is a slightly more recent Quinnipiac poll that also includes these 2024 matchups, but the public materials only provide a white college/noncollege split.). Earlier polls from this year—where data are available—replicate this pattern of Trump and DeSantis leading Biden among working-class voters.

Why doesn’t this bother Democrats more? After all, they are America’s party of the left and were historically America’s party of the working class. I think part of the reason is that the largest part of the working class, the white working class, is now viewed quite negatively throughout much of the party. They can be put, as Hillary Clinton unforgettably phrased it, in a “basket of deplorables”—“racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic”—and therefore justly ignored by right-thinking Democrats.

Democrats also comfort themselves that they still have very strong support among the nonwhite working class. But of course strong support among a sector of the working class does not make Democrats the party of the overall working class, however much Democrats may wish that to be so. Moreover, in recent elections Democrats’ hold on the nonwhite working class has also been slipping, which is contributing to the Democrats’ widening deficit among the working class as a whole.

Reasons like this UAW crash and burn are probably reasons why Obama is now in pure panic mode.

Fox News:

Former President Obama is becoming increasingly anxious about the closeness of the 2024 presidential election and fears former President Trump could take back the White House, according to a report.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder, one of Obama’s closest confidants, told USA Today that if Trump were to win the Republican nomination and beat President Biden this November, there could be “incalculable damage” brought upon the country.

Holder confirmed Obama “absolutely” holds the same views when asked by the publication.

Of course, Obama’s jumping into the fray to save his “4th term” as “president.” The Fox piece goes on:

Individuals within Obama’s inner orbit further said he believes the race would be extremely close, according to USA Today. Due to this, Obama will try to “move the needle” toward Biden with calculated moments throughout the campaign.

Others said Obama thinks the 2024 landscape has “major structural advantages that will favor Republicans” and believes Trump winning again would be “dangerous.”

“President Obama is going to do everything he can to help in that regard, and that means campaigning, but it also means sharing strategic advice with [Biden],” Holder told the publication. “And who better than President Obama to be a primary advisor to the campaign?”

Obama’s free to do his thing, but let’s face it, he doesn’t hold the sway he used to. And it’s doubtful there are enough “middle-of-the-night paper ballots” to bridge the gap this time. The truth is, that interview was fascinating for one main reason: Shawn Fain’s frankness. It’s rare to see such candid truth-telling, especially from someone at his level in a major union like the UAW. But that’s where America is right now—there’s so much frustration that people are beyond sugarcoating. It’s a refreshing but brutal reflection of our current state in Biden’s broken America.

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