Behind the News: The GOP's Pro-Labor Sham w/ Brandon Mancilla
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🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Brandon Mancilla of the UAW looks behind the GOP’s pro-worker facade. Adam Hilton, author of True Blues, talks about the bizarre nature of the US political party system.
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| 0:00.0 | The the Hello and |
| 0:34.0 | welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. |
| 0:36.0 | Unlike American political parties behind the news |
| 0:39.0 | adheres to its fundamental structures, which means |
| 0:41.0 | two guests in two segments today. |
| 0:43.0 | We'll hear from the UAW's Brandon Mansiya about J.D. Vance, the GOP's alleged pro-worker |
| 0:48.3 | turn, and then from Adam Hilton about the nature of our party system. |
| 0:52.7 | So much of the news these days makes your head spin, which presents great challenges to those |
| 0:57.1 | of us trying to get behind it. |
| 0:59.2 | The reinvention of the post-shooting Donald Trump is some sort of empath. The New York Post informed me |
| 1:04.2 | this morning that he regularly checks in with his 17-year-old granddaughter to see |
| 1:08.1 | how her golf game is going and some NBC news pundits spoke the other day of |
| 1:12.3 | an unprecedentedly pensive look on his face. |
| 1:15.2 | It's all hard to process. |
| 1:17.2 | And then the reinvention of the Republican Party is some sort of anti-market pro-worker entity |
| 1:22.0 | with former hedge funder and Peter Teal prodigy |
| 1:24.6 | JD Vance as its new avatar accelerates the spinning head sense. What are we to |
| 1:29.7 | make of all this? To help us sort it all out we're joined by Brandon Mansiya, Regional Director of the United |
| 1:35.4 | Auto Workers Region 9A, which covers eastern New York State, New England, and Puerto Rico. Brandon got into the labor |
| 1:42.1 | movement as a graduate student and is now the first directly elected |
| 1:45.3 | leader of Region 9A. |
| 1:47.2 | His family were refugees from the Guatemalan Civil War in the 1980s, and to quote |
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