Over the past few Labor Days, we have pointed out that, while in the past Democrats presented themselves as the party of the working guy; pro-union, pro-American manufacturing, pro-infrastructure and anti-communist, today’s Democratic Party looks nothing like the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy.
In the age of Donald Trump, Democrats became, not the party of the American working man, but the party of get-out-of-jail-free cards for criminals, free stuff for young urban professionals and special rights for LGTQ++ and illegal aliens.
Rather than protect American workers from low wage illegal alien competition, Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden opened the United States to a record number of illegal aliens and job-stealing immigrants admitted through special programs lobbied-through by Big Business.
In February 2024, the House Homeland Security Committee disclosed that during his term in office Biden officially surpassed a shocking nine million border crossings nationwide, not including the more than 1.8 million gotaways.
Average border encounters under Biden were nearly 160,000 individuals. The daily average peaked at 15,000. In total, CBP recorded approximately 11 million border encounters over the course of Biden’s four years.
In February 2025, just a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, daily border encounters were down by 93%, encounters with gotaways – the top threat to public safety – were down by 95%, and migrant crossings were down by 99.99%.
March of 2025 saw the lowest monthly number of border encounters in recorded history, at less than 7,200. The lowest daily number of border encounters, in February of 2025, fell to less than 200, thereby eliminating the downward pressure on the wages of native-born workers from low-cost illegal alien labor.
It is true that during the Biden years the country added back millions of jobs lost at the height of the COVID pandemic. However, most of that employment growth went to immigrants, both legal and illegal. The government’s household survey showed that there were only 971,000 more U.S.-born Americans employed in May 2024 compared to May 2019 prior to the pandemic, while the number of employed immigrants increased by 3.2 million.
The labor force participation rate — the share working or looking for work — has declined dramatically among U.S.-born men since the 1960s, particularly for those without a bachelor’s degree. This is true even for U.S.-born men who are in the “prime” 25-54 age range for working.
To compound the problem, Democrats put billions of taxpayer dollars into NGOs dedicated to thwarting President Trump's boder security policies - the Democrats clearly have become the party of the illegal aliens and unlimited immigration that has suppressed the wages and destroyed the quality of life for millions of America’s working families.
Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders has long-advocated debt-free college and the Democrats’ most influential members of Congress, such as New York Democratic-Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have made free college and Medicare for all, including illegal aliens, hallmarks of their legislative agenda.
Recognizing that taking such an unpopular vote would be a suicide pact for congressional Democrats, Biden have tried to use presidential emergency powers to accomplish most of that agenda. Biden’s $10,000 student loan “forgiveness” order for college-educated debtors with incomes of up to $125,000, proposed to be accomplished without a vote in Congress, tramples the Constitution and spits in the eye of working Americans who chose not to go to college or who worked to pay their loans on time.
Even after the Supreme Court swatted down their plan, Biden and the Democrats persisted and defied the Nation’s highest court.
President Trump quickly reversed the Biden programs and paused other previously existing programs that allowed college graduates working for non-profits involved in blatantly anti-American political work to have their loans cancelled through the same program intended to help teachers, police officers and firefighters.
The U.S. economy grew more in the second quarter than initially projected, the Commerce Department announced Thursday, which revised the U.S. gross domestic product to 3.3%, up from a previous estimate of 3%.
From April through June. It is the best quarter since September 2023, CNBC reported on air. And it appears native-born workers accounted for all job gains since January.
Trump’s focus on job creation, particularly in the manufacturing and energy sectors, is the literal polar opposite of the policies of the Democrats.
“Killing 10,000 jobs and taking $2.2 billion in payroll out of workers’ pockets is not what Americans need or want right now,” Andy Black, president and CEO of the Association of Oil Pipelines, said when Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline on day one of his administration, to the loud cheers of Congressional Democrats and their fellow travelers in the media.
The Laborers’ International Union of North America called Biden’s decision “both insulting and disappointing to the thousands of hard-working members who will lose good-paying, middle-class family-supporting jobs.” All-in-all over 839,000 jobs were lost in the energy sector and the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline alone cost 11,000 jobs, including 8,000 good paying union jobs.
On the national level Democrats put stopping “climate change” ahead of jobs for coal miners – once the bedrock of the Democratic Party in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
During the Biden years Democrats proved Republicans right when announcing aggressive climate change executive actions in January 2021, with special climate envoy John Kerry using the timeworn line that “the same people can do those [green energy] jobs, but the choice of doing the solar power one now is a better choice.”
The problem is that no one was building new “green energy” facilities in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Southeastern Ohio and Wyoming coal country, leaving union miner and oil worker families little opportunity in their hometowns devastated by Democrat policies.
When Democrats were in power, in almost every sector that traditionally provided a comfortable middle-class lifestyle to America’s working families employment plummeted.
But that shouldn’t really be a surprise, because as our friend Stephen Moore documented in an April 2021 column, to appease Democrat politicians, rank-and-file union workers were being sold out by their bosses:
This is about as dumb as the Pipefitters Union endorsing President Joe Biden. He repaid them with his first act as president: killing the Keystone pipeline. So, now we have the Pipefitters Union against pipelines and the coal miners union against coal.
Did anyone bother actually to ask the rank-and-file members what they thought? Can they get their union dues back?
They should. The livelihoods of more than 50,000 coal miners just got sold down the river by their union bosses.
And for what? So, these miners can be given Biden welfare checks or so mining jobs, which typically pay $75,000 a year, can be replaced with solar panel installation? Ask any miner about that trade, as I have, and they will laugh in your face.
UMWA President Benedict Arnold (his real name is Cecil Roberts) conceded that his union members "may lose a few more jobs here." Still, he defended his capitulation to the Biden anti-coal radicals by saying, "We're trying to insert ourselves into this conversation because a lot of coal miners in this country and their families have suffered already some traumatic losses."
So, his solution is to make the trauma a whole lot worse thanks to the Neville Chamberlain appeasement with the green enemy fanatics of the industry.
Today, it is hard to identify who speaks for the working men and women of America because about the only union that has not fallen all over itself to encourage illegal immigration is the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), which, knowing what a Joe Biden-inspired 10 million-plus illegal alien surge at the border looked like.
However, in 2024 Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien delivered a historic address at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and his outfit began more seriously supporting Republicans.
That was a warning sign for Democrats that their labor support — long a keystone of their base — continues to erode, as President Donald Trump chisels away at it in his effort to remake the GOP as a working-class party.
“Labor unions are finally recognizing the fact that their memberships are made up of workers from across the political spectrum,” said Rep. Mike Bresnahan of Pennsylvania, who received $5,000 from the Teamsters and whose grandfather was a member of the IBEW.
It’s pretty clear that today’s Democratic Party is not the workingman’s friend. We wonder what noted anti-communist labor leaders like Walter Reuther (United Autoworkers President and leading liberal Democrat of the post-WWII era), George Meany, the longtime president of the AFL-CIO known for his firm opposition to communism, David Dubinsky, leader of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), known for his role in the anti-communist global labor movement, would think about today’s Democrats, who sellout their union member supporters by using their tax dollars to subsidize college for arrogant soy boys and encourage illegal immigration to drive down union members wages. Chances are all would be right there with Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien speaking at the Republican National Convention.
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