Source: The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson
“Even as Joe Biden’s subsidies for electric-vehicle factories created new jobs for autoworkers, and even as his joining a UAW picket line when the union was striking the Big Three was the kind of pro-union commitment that no previous president had ever made, Trump delivered what seemed to many autoworkers, even UAW members, to be a firmer guarantee of their continuing ability to make a living. He pledged, repeatedly, that he’d oppose the production of electric cars — because, he said over and over again, it required fewer workers to make them than the number required to make fuel-powered vehicles. … The old order, in which men were men and cars were gas-guzzlers, would regain its rightful place in America’s socioeconomic order. But for Elon Musk.” (03/17/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-17-trumps-180-electric-vehicles-provided-theyre-teslas/