December 2nd, is when Washington arrived at Trenton and commenced the surprise and difficult journey which would seal the American victory in our revolutionary war. Trump's "surprise" is not crossing the Delaware. Instead it is doing what he said he would do.
President Trump has just announced a bold plan to stem the deadly flood of fentanyl and illegal migrants into our country. As part of his initiative, he's vowed to impose stiff tariffs on Mexican, Chinese and Canadian goods until they stop flooding these deadly substances into our borders.
Support for Trump among auto workers is growing. Promethean PAC organizers have joined with Auto Workers for Trump founder Brian Pannebecker in holding Trump rallies at auto plants throughout the Detroit area, most recently at plants in Detroit itself.
UAW President Shawn Fain pushed the panic button in mid-August, announcing an unprecedented political outreach program to its members (who are supposed to be solidly Democratic) and launching a publicity-stunt complaint against Donald Trump and Elon Musk with the National Labor Relations Board.
This comes in the wake of the Republican Party Convention in July, which featured a speech by Teamster President Sean O’Brien, and a Trump endorsement by Bobby Bartels, a Steamfitters local official from New York. That Convention also saw the adoption of the new Republican Party Platform which pledges to return the GOP to its roots as the party of industry and workers, and contains multiple planks to defend the auto industry from free trade and EV-mandate insanity. Adding to the potential for the emergence of a Republican/labor alliance, the Teamsters are allowing their members to vote on who to endorse for President. There is a real possibility that the largest union in the country could endorse the Trump-Vance ticket.
This leaves those trade union leaders who remain in the pocket of the green, woke and free-trade-loving Democratic Party in a pickle. Hence the ridiculous NLRB complaint filed by Fain. The complaint alleges that the off-the-cuff exchange between Trump and Musk in their August 12 interview, which referenced Musk laying off workers, represented an “illegal attempt to threaten and intimidate workers who stand up for themselves.” This apparently referred to the fact that Musk laid off half of the workforce at Twitter when he took it over and rebranded it as X. Given the fact that the X interview between Trump and Musk pretty much broke the internet, it seems like X might not have needed those caramel mocha frappuccino-sipping, 5-break-times-a-day employees.
But the real marker of the Democrats’ panic is Fain’s announcement of what is being described as the most ambitious political outreach program in decades. That Fain feels he has to convince his members, who have been solidly Democratic for most of the UAW’s history, to please vote for Harris is remarkable. In a video statement, the best Fain could come up with was: “All they care about is their billionaire buddies, and taking more wealth, so this is a 'which side are you on election'” and “Donald Trump is all talk, but Kamala Harris has delivered for auto workers.”
What Biden and Harris have delivered for auto workers is inflation and cascading layoffs, as consumer purchasing power collapses, prices skyrocket, and the EV fairy tale explodes. Just last week, Stellantis announced over 2000 layoffs in the Detroit area. During the 2023 UAW strike and right up to today, Donald Trump continues to warn that Biden's (and now Harris’) policies of forced EV mandates and free trade, will destroy the auto industry and result in massive job losses.
So, it’s not surprising that support for Trump among auto workers is growing. Promethean PAC organizers have joined with Auto Workers for Trump founder Brian Pannebecker in holding Trump rallies at auto plants throughout the Detroit area, most recently at plants in Detroit itself. Judging from the numbers of thumbs up versus the numbers of extended middle fingers, the visible support for Trump is easily 50 percent at these plants, whose workers are mostly minorities and Detroit residents.
Detroit CBS affiliate briefly covered the new UAW outreach program.
On the heels of Fain’s announcement, the Detroit CBS affiliate briefly covered the new UAW outreach program but then gave extensive coverage of the latest rally at the Mack Avenue plant, interviewing Pannebecker and the other retired auto workers in attendance. Nationally-syndicated columnist Selena Zito wrote an article headlined, “Plagued by inflation, working-class Michiganders turn to Trump.” She interviewed several of the attendees, including one retired auto worker who said, “From where I sit and experience life in my community and in my job, the Republicans are more for the common man and for America working its way up into the upper class,” he said. “And the Democrats are for the elites, rewarding those that have already gotten there.”
Author, Michigan-based organizer, passionate student of Plato’s dialogues. Committed to reviving the industrial economy and producer culture of the Midwest and to educating grass-roots activists.
December 2nd, is when Washington arrived at Trenton and commenced the surprise and difficult journey which would seal the American victory in our revolutionary war. Trump's "surprise" is not crossing the Delaware. Instead it is doing what he said he would do.
President Trump has just announced a bold plan to stem the deadly flood of fentanyl and illegal migrants into our country. As part of his initiative, he's vowed to impose stiff tariffs on Mexican, Chinese and Canadian goods until they stop flooding these deadly substances into our borders.
On Thanksgiving Eve, we take note that George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation provides a proper focus for this week's update. We look at the continuing strategic lunacy of the Anglo-American governments, and the countervailing "Trump Effect" which is beginning to manifest itself.
This excerpt, from a new book by historian Robert Ingraham asks President elect Trump to consider the model of America's great 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in planning the grand celebration the President wants to hold for this nation's 250th anniversary in 2026.
Salena Zito
