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.
I also hate the use of coal miners and steel workers because they are an incredibly tiny subset of the working class, only chosen to appeal to the middle class middle management types hate fantasy of the working class. There’s like 35k coal miners and 70k steel workers in the US total. Like why wouldn’t they have chosen a (marginally) more realistic example involving fast food workers, warehouse workers, or general retail workers?
