Problems for the Democratic Party just seem to keep piling up, don't they? It would be more surprising if they didn't, given how many 99-1 issues the Democrats seem determined to be on the 1 side of, and indeed, that may be one of the reasons for their latest woes: The Democrat Party has been and is still losing more and more support from one of their traditional hardcore support blocs: Labor unions.
Republicans are continuing to receive labor union support amid Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien repeatedly lambasting Democrats for allegedly deserting the working class.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education (DRIVE) PAC has doled out nearly $70,000 to Republicans this year. The donations mark the second cycle in a row that the Teamsters’ political arm has donated to Republican candidates after contributing to Democrats exclusively for roughly two decades.
“Our members are working people whose interests cut across party lines,” Kara Deniz, a Teamsters spokesperson told POLITICO’s Playbook, who was first to report the DRIVE PAC contributions. “And there’s no value in living in a bubble … where you only talk to certain people to the exclusion of others.”
Living in a bubble is sure what Democrat politicians have been doing lately, and it's costing them. Teamsters President Sean O'Brien names "big money" and "big tech" as co-conspirators in the Democrats' drive to keep losing elections; that, and their penchant for ignoring the union workers and working-class Americans in general. One of the first rules of politics is "dance with the one who brung ya," and the Dems are choosing new dance partners.
Republicans are responding to the working class by inviting, "Hey, let's us cut a rug."
The Teamsters’ political arm contributed $5,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), House Republicans’ campaign arm, and a combined $62,000 to 22 House Republicans, including New York Reps. Nicole Malliotakis, Andrew Garbarino, Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler as well as New Jersey Reps. Jeff Van Drew and Chris Smith during 2025’s second fundraising quarter.
O’Brien has been a fierce critic of the Democratic Party’s apparent failure to engage the working class despite former President Joe Biden frequently touting his one-term tenure as “the most pro-union” presidency in American history.
“Where the Democrats lost … they fell in love with their captors. They fell in love with big money. They fell in love with big tech. And they forgot who they’re truly representing: working people. You know why? Because they’re not in their communities, not in their neighborhoods,” O’Brien said on “Honestly with Bari Weiss” Tuesday. “They’re not talking to the people that they’re paid to represent.”
I think, though, that there's more to it than that.
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The private-sector unions, like the Teamsters, are, of course, narrowly focused on working-class pay and benefits. That's their job. But the people who hold those working-class gigs, mostly blue-collar types, have many other reasons to be annoyed with Democrats. It's Democrats, not Republicans, that are insisting that the workers' daughters share their sports teams and locker rooms with boys. It's Democrats, not Republicans, who are insisting that we should be getting energy from expensive, unreliable windmills and solar farms, rather than the natural gas, oil, coal, and uranium that the United States has plenty of. It's Democrats, not Republicans, who are in favor of $6 a gallon gasoline - and paying a half a million dollars for a 1,200 square foot starter house.
Blue-collar workers want jobs. They want homes of their own. They want stable traditional family lives. The GOP, as it is currently constituted, gets that. The Democrats don't. And the labor unions are almost certainly, in no small part, reacting to the wants and needs of their members. The Teamsters are still donating more to Democrats than to Republicans, but not all that long ago any Teamsters support for a Republican would have been a shocker. And as long as the Democrats stay on their present path, look for this shift to continue, costing the Democrats much of what was once a rock-solid voting base.
The times, they are a'changing.
Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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