From the New York Times: ‘The Right Has a Greater Appreciation of Labor’s Role Than We Do’
Berry Craig
Can Democrats figure out how to get unions back into the equation in 2020?
By THOMAS B. EDSALL
Even as many Democrats appear to accept organized labor’s decline, Republicans recognize the crucial importance of unions and are determined to gut them further.
The conservative who may understand labor’s ongoing significance best is Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
In a 2017 essay for OZY.com, “Why Republicans (and Trump) May Still Win Big in 2020 — Despite ‘Everything’,” Norquist, a longtime anti-tax, anti-labor activist, argued that continuing the right-wing’s effort to crush labor’s power will be of vital importance to the outcome of the next election: