‘The Realignment’: GOP Sen. Hawley To Introduce Pro-Union Legislation

He was the first president to walk a picket line. And he crowed regularly about being the “most pro-union” president ever. But after four years as president, Joe Biden could not stop a growing working-class coalition, one that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members, from flocking to Donald Trump.

Reflecting on election night about the coalition that returned him to the White House, Trump called it “a historic realignment.” John McLaughlin wondered if it would endure.

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“The Republican Party right now is defined largely by one very specific personality who’s been quite successful,” said Abigail Ball, executive director of the conservative think tank American Compass. “If we’re going to see this be a long-lasting realignment,” she continued, “where working class voters take seriously that conservatives want to deliver, we have to do real long-term policy work.”

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