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.