One interpretation of Biden’s wearing a United Auto Workers shirt at a rally is that he’s playacting as a member of the working class. A better interpretation, though, is that he’s being honest about the nature of the relationship between the Democratic Party and the UAW.

Robin Williams had an old joke about how politicians should wear the logos of their sponsors on their suits like NASCAR drivers do. By wearing a UAW shirt, Biden just did that.

The UAW has had a broadly progressive political agenda since the start, and it has always been an enemy of conservatives. It has given over 98 percent of its campaign contributions to Democrats in every election cycle from 1990 to 2022. It knows it needs powerful allies in government, because its actual record as a corrupt and ineffective union doesn’t inspire membership.

Organized labor is progressivism, and progressivism is organized labor. Biden’s sartorial choice is only further confirmation of that decades-old truth.