“...percentage of people in a union is only 17-18%.”
That may be true, but there are many not in a umion who get personal satisfaction from considering themselves part of the “brilliant, enlightened, intellectuals” of “society” who are elite and far above any of those “flyover morons”.
They’re lurking and will be ready to turn the moment the Democrat leadership comes up with a tried and tested premise that has legs.
IMHO
My numbers were old, apparently it’s around 11% of the workforce that is in a union. Union voters broke for Democrats 60-40, which is substantially less than it was 20 years ago. The Republicans have basically doubled their share of union votes over the last 20 years despite being aggressively anti-union. This suggests that the union rank and file isn’t on board with their leadership’s radical left-wing views.