A conservative and bloated bureaucracy earning multiple salaries dominates the union, that on local and statewide is beholden to the other party of big business: the Democrats. The immediate issue is how long can the reformers and the left inside and outside the Teamsters allow Sean O’Brien to pursue his dangerous liaison with the far right?
It’s important to understand the election as a repudiation of Trump and Republican rule but not an endorsement of whatever it is the Democratic Party stands for…
The challenge now is to ensure that the social force that intervened in recent weeks does not become subordinated again to the timing and limitations of a government “tragically” conditioned by its internal makeup (the system of alliances that comprise it) and by the renewed strength that Bolsonarism won in Congress in the first round of elections.
