Like first of all, the guy is pretending the working class is way more reactionary than it actually is. Secondly, who's organizing a group of iron workers in America anymore? Like I know it happens, but they're obsessing over a job that a very small handful of people have at this point. And the entire purpose is to build up right wing narratives of what the working class is, like the left isn't going to magically win if we pretend that the working class is entirely composed of socially conservative evangelical white men who work at coal mines or steel mills.
So many wokes and leftists think that people with reactionaries attitudes are irredeemable. Certainly they can be a hard nut to crack, but the message of solidarity is powerful and can thaw the hearts of a lot of assholes. It's weird to think that just working together to help each other can have such a positive effect on people's attitudes. But a lot of people have been immersed in a social darwinism pressure cooker their whole lives, and have literally never experienced solidarity with their fellow comrades until they became involved in collective labor action.
