The dust from the wrecked White House is drifting directly across the street to the House of Labor, the AFL-CIO headquarters. Google Maps shows it clearly.
John,
When I saw the footage of Trump’s demolition of the East Wing, I couldn’t help but notice something symbolic.
The dust from the wrecked White House is drifting directly across the street to the House of Labor, the AFL-CIO headquarters. Google Maps shows it clearly:
Dust from the wrecked White House East Wing is drifting directly into the AFL-CIO headquarters.
It’s a metaphor for what’s happening in America right now. The wreckage represents the cheap, easy politics of people like Lauren Boebert—people who choose to tear things down.
That dust is coming for the labor movement, for working people in every industry—the people who do the opposite, who actually build things.
I had the honor of working inside the House of Labor as the director of speechwriting of the AFL-CIO and wrote for legendary labor leader Richard Trumka and the first woman ever to lead the US labor movement Liz Shuler. We helped make the labor movement the most popular it’s been in a generation. We know what it takes to build something real.
It takes character and backbone to build. That’s what the AFL-CIO stands for. That’s what our campaign stands for.
Lauren Boebert can have the ballroom. I’m running for the people in our movement—the builders, the makers, the dreamers. Together, we’ll take the future and build the next great era for America’s middle class.
But to get there, we have to fight through the suffocating toxic dust cloud that Trump and Boebert have unleashed on our nation.
