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Even in states where the Left seems completely unassailable, history has shown the tables can be turned just by defunding the public-sector unions that have become far too influential.
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n the days following Donald Trump’s stunning (to the mainstream media, at least) election in 2016, the same collection of enlightened pundits whose projections had failed so miserably were paraded before the cameras to try and make sense of it all. Most offered up the customary deep dive into voter demographics and exit polls, combined with a bit of conjecture about the By JEFF RHODES mood of the elecVP for News & Information torate — and more than a few since-debunked conspiracy theories about Russians meddling with the tabulation procedures. For whatever reason, though, one explanation that got little or no attention was the recent defunding of an essential Democratic special interest — public employee unions. But it’s a lesson that should be taken to heart by every American alarmed by the growing, but largely unreported, influence of special interests over the governing process but frustrated that there seems to be no solution. Big Labor, of course, has been a major supporter of leftist politics for decades, but with only 6 percent of workers in the private sector currently paying dues
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