Republicans should embrace AFL-CIO, unions

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Most of the White and Latino men in unions are Republican voters.

The only union men that vote Democratic aggressively still are Black men.

Republicans should drop the right to work legislations and embrace the unions....because union people like the GOP, not only police unions, but laborers, etc.

Most of the laborers are Republicans.

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Not a single white man in my bargaining unit is a Republican.

That has to be surprising, wow. They still support Democrats after BLM and all of that?

[Suburbia]

Not a single white man in my bargaining unit is a Republican.

That has to be surprising, wow. They still support Democrats after BLM and all of that?

Republicans have pushed through right to work, blocked miniumum wage increases, actually cut police funding for real ( Does anyone remember in 2011, when Kasich tried to destroy Police/Fire fighter unions as well ? https://www.cleveland.com/open/2011/02/police_and_fire_unions_say_the.html).

Sam Brownback of Kansas, Governor Sam Brownback, cut taxes so much, he blew a hole in the Kansas State budget forcing him to cut spending to.... Police. State Police.

But no one, wants to strike at the Republicans for this.

If you wanna talk about a party adopting unorthodox policy, Democrats attacking Republicans for being the ones REALLY "defunding the police" would make much more sense.

Have better messaging then.

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Republicans will NEVER support unions. They might play lip service but its only to spite Democrats and make them look bad.

Why do a lot of union people vote Republican then?

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Republicans would never be able to do that because the Republican preference for smaller government is incompatible with the desires of union favored policies. That is before you get to all the donor influence as well.

Then why do Republicans get police 🚔 and fire 🚒 support?

[Suburbia]

Republicans would never be able to do that because the Republican preference for smaller government is incompatible with the desires of union favored policies. That is before you get to all the donor influence as well.

Then why do Republicans get police 🚔 and fire 🚒 support?

Compare the Romney-Ryan ticket with even McCain-Palin or Trump's performances in many of those types of areas.

Then remember that Paul Ryan is what the donors and the economic pressure groups want.

Yea, for some reason, McCain and Romney could not even win the rich Hamptons/WWC Long Island area..but Dollar Don, the billionaire got their support......that's the irony of it all

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Republicans would never be able to do that because the Republican preference for smaller government is incompatible with the desires of union favored policies. That is before you get to all the donor influence as well.

Then why do Republicans get police 🚔 and fire 🚒 support?

Culture wars.

The assumption that Democrats have nothing in common with real Americans like Police and firefighters.

I think it is also probably because a lot of cops and firefighters were pissed because of the Democrats' antiwar stance in the 2000s....a lot of them wanted vengeance for 9/11....their brothers and sisters died......

Or it probably goes back to the 1960s after the antiwar protests split the Left faction (Hardhat book from David Paul Kuhn)

A lot of cops and firefighters probably do benefit from Democratic policies, but they don't feel the Dems have their backs....especially cops......