Thomas Geoghegan, a Chicago-based labor lawyer, has contributed articles on politics and the labor movement since 2000. His book Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement was published in December 2014.
We were peppered with volleys of mail from the young, and others, responding to Thomas Geoghegan’s “Dems–Why Not Woo
Since 1968 the Democrats have been shut out, more or less, as majority party. But with a small bump in left-of-center turnout, they’d be running the country.
Right now, what hurts labor, day to day, is the wins and losses in the lower courts.