Hedges points to the obvious, but it's not something you hear discussed a lot: This is Obama's guy, Rahm Emmanuel, taking on the teachers' union. It tells you precisely where the Democrats are in relationship to what used to be their base. In the same way mainstream Democrats have supported and in some cases made worse the Bush-era erosion of civil liberties and the strengthening of the surveillance state, we see it here continuing the Reagan legacy of anti-unionism.
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