Photo: Eduardo Munoz Avarez/AP/Shutterstock Seventy-nine years old and slouching toward a devastating midterm rebuke, President Joe Biden rarely appears to be enjoying his job these days. But some of the old spark was there Wednesday, when he addressed a gathering of building-trades unionists in Washington, D.C. Biden spoke in the first-person plural about the aims of the labor movement, as if he, too, were a union welder and not the commander-in-chief.
This apparent willingness to antagonize Jeff Bezos’s empire is also notable in light of Amazon’s project, over the past decade, of recruiting an army of Democratic Party operatives to protect itself from just such antagonism. As readers may know, Amazon’s senior vice-president for global corporate affairs is Jay Carney, who was Vice-President Biden’s director of communications and later President Obama’s press secretary.
In an era of populism and anti-elite suspicion, this reality — of an incestuous consulting class that flits back and forth between public and private power — is a profound detriment to the Democratic Party’s legitimacy.
SamAdlerBell Once Title 42 ends, labor will lose their edge. I can't believe they are dropping it.
SamAdlerBell Democrats do not want labor victories, protection from cops, pardons of wrongfully convicted, forgiveness of student loans, Medicare for All, one can go on. One thing is certain, Black Democrats will support most authoritarian, vicious Party faction. This is where Democrats are.
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