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Fox News is a hell of a drug.
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The anti-union sentiment started well before then.
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It mostly started with Reagan in the 80s and was continued by Clinton in the 90s. Both republicans and democrats abandoned unions almost in lock step.
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Did they abandon unions because they stopped being effective political blocs?
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They abandoned unions because of their donors.
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Union membership was declining to the point where it probably wasn't a thing worth politicians chasing. There's a bunch of reasons for that decline, but they definitely weren't the force they had been
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The discussion at hand is a bit more modern, Republicans abandoned unions shortly after the civil rights era.
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