Teamsters president at the Republic National Convention: The bureaucracy throws its lot in with fascism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : That is, the union apparatus is prepared to do business with any corporate politician, including both Biden and Trump.
58% : It followed months of courtship between the Teamsters and the Republican extreme right, including multiple meetings between O'Brien and Trump, O'Brien's support for Missouri Senator Josh Hawley (a key co-conspirator in January 6), and tens of thousands of dollars in donations to the Republicans.
50% : His speech called for "bipartisanship" based on nationalism, militarism and the integration of the unions with management and the capitalist state.
48% : Support for Trump is not a fundamental shift but the outcome of the bureaucracy's policies, which are determined by the needs of capitalism.
46% : "For now, the Teamsters are the only major union to have thrown in with Trump.
45% : But beneath a show of "bipartisanship," O'Brien unmistakably indicated his particular sympathy for emerging American fascism centered around Trump.
42% : Politically, the bureaucracy is dominated by nationalism and anticommunism, which expresses its mortal fear of the revolutionary threat posed by the working class.
42% : The enthusiastic response to the RNC from the "liberal" media is a sign that significant sections of the ruling class, demoralized by internal dysfunction and terrified of the threat of social revolution, are attracted to the idea of Trump or another strongman taking power to impose "national unity.
40% : He pointed to the Teamsters' record in an earlier period of routinely endorsing Republican candidates for president, including Nixon, Reagan and George Bush Sr., all arch-reactionary hated figures associated with imperialist war and massive assaults on workers.
18% : "Had O'Brien given the same speech at the Democratic National Convention, hailing Biden instead of Trump, it would not have been out of place.
15% : He complained only that O'Brien combined "decent class struggle talking points" -- this is what Sunkara calls O'Brien's fascistic demagogy -- with "fawning lines about Trump."
13% : Referring to the attempted assassination Saturday, O'Brien hailed Trump as "one tough S.O.B." He singled out Hawley and J.D. Vance, Trump's newly announced running mate, as supposed friends of workers who were "not funded by big money think tanks.

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