Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Working Class
Liberals and Never Trump Conservatives must learn Donald Trump was a warning from the Working-Class.
Alex was a worker at an Ohio factory. When his plant was bought out by a multinational corporation, he learned he learned how expendable he was to to the company.
Alex came down with the flu, which put him out of commission and out of work for three days. When he returned, he came armed with a doctor’s note explaining why he called in sick. The new plant manager didn’t accept the note because the doctor never said when Alex could come back to work. Alex got a revised note. This time the plant manager said he should have called in each day he was out. Alex explained in the past calling in on the first day was sufficient. The plant manager disagreed, and since he took three days off unannounced he was now on a five day suspension.
You can guess what happens next. The plant manager calls him after a few days and tells him they were looking for something better, so he was fired.
In the past, his union would have gone to bat for him, but with the plant under new management, his union rep no longer had the relationship with plant management that he used to have so they couldn’t help Alex. Since…
