{"id":33330,"date":"2025-02-14T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/want-to-defeat-trump-support-unions-eric-blanc\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:05:46","slug":"want-to-defeat-trump-support-unions-eric-blanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/want-to-defeat-trump-support-unions-eric-blanc\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to defeat Trump? Support unions | Eric Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organized labor could be Trump\u2019s kryptonite<\/p>\n<p>Can anybody stop Trumpism? Progressives are understandably worried. Though federal judges may temporarily pause some of the new administration\u2019s most brazenly illegal executive orders, a hyper-conservative supreme court lies waiting in the wings. And looking ahead to 2028, it\u2019s hard to feel hopeful about defeating Maga given that the Democratic party continues to hemorrhage working-class voters.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s no need to despair. A powerful force in our society has the legitimacy, resources and leverage to turn things around: organized labor. Unions can beat back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s attacks, expose his sham populism, and \u2013 by uniting workers around their shared economic interests \u2013 help isolate his xenophobic scapegoating.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/14\/trump-unions-fighting-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized labor could be Trump\u2019s kryptonite Can anybody stop Trumpism? Progressives are understandably worried. Though federal judges may temporarily pause some of the new administration\u2019s most brazenly illegal executive orders, a hyper-conservative supreme court lies waiting in the wings. And looking ahead to 2028, it\u2019s hard to feel hopeful about defeating Maga given that the &#8230; <a title=\"Want to defeat Trump? Support unions | Eric Blanc\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/want-to-defeat-trump-support-unions-eric-blanc\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Want to defeat Trump? Support unions | Eric Blanc\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}