Donald Trump loves a hard hat. Few politicians have worked harder to associate themselves with the imagery of blue-collar America: factory floors, steel mills, coal mines, construction sites, truck drivers, welders and machinists. Put Trump in front of a row of workers wearing reflective vests and you've got the visual shorthand for an entire political identity: This is the president of the working man. Trump loves the hard hat and the factory photo op—but his labor policies

Vivek Ramaswamy wants teachers’ unions eliminated. He has accused teachers of unionizing against the children they are supposed to serve, as though the people buying classroom supplies, answering parents after hours and managing thirty different sets of needs are somehow the great predatory interest in American education. Against the children? Teachers are the adults identifying hunger, reporting suspected abuse, calming panic attacks, breaking up fights and trying to keep ev