Marco Rubio, always a reliable GOP weathervane, claims that he supports the efforts of Amazon employees in Alabama to unionize. Is this a sign that the GOP is becoming more pro-labor and less capitalist?
Of course not! Rubio doesn’t care a fig for the Amazon workers. His objectives are to: show solidarity with Trump supporters who, like the man on golf cart, have a grudge against Amazon; take a shot at allegedly “woke” companies, even though Amazon doesn’t strike me as being particularly “woke;” and pretend to be sympathetic to unions, when he isn’t. Just watch how he reacts to the pro-union bill that the House just passed if you need any evidence of his real intentions.
Pigs will fly when the GOP actually supports unions. The party loves individual reactionary union members, who frequently respond as requested to Mr. Potato Head politics, but unions themselves–not so much. They just get in the way of the donor class.