TRUMP, RIGHT-WING POPULISM, AND THE FUTURE OF ORGANIZED LABOR

Donald Trump is a symptom of an underlying disease: the development of right-wing populism in the United States as a nationalist and irrationalist response to the confluence of multiple crises. To the extent that organized labor has refused to address the rising tide of right-wing populism specifically, and larger issues of race, gender, the environment, and the economy more generally, it has lacked the capacity to confront this existential threat to its own existence. This chapter makes this argument and then delineates approaches that we believe can and must be undertaken in order to not only combat right-wing populism but