Newsweek
In an op-ed at Newsweek, deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon wrote a lengthy article arguing that “the Left” was betraying Southwest employees, who, she argued based on virtually no evidence, were staging a sickout motivated by their resentment of how “liberal elites” had handled the coronavirus pandemic and waged culture war on them. (Ungar-Sargon’s sole source for this idea was a link to aviation blog The Points Guy, which briefly mentioned “online speculation” about the mandate.)
Her argument is total and complete garbage culminating in this bizarre rant:
But what we’re seeing now is the possibility that the American working class is developing a class consciousness that’s populist economically, too, albeit in its own way. Forced to defend their autonomy in the face of vaccine mandates, working-class Americans across industries are fighting back and insisting on their collective power. And while they may not pick the issues today’s highly educated Left might wish they did, this moment is presenting Democrats with a stark choice: Do they want to be the side sneering at working-class Americans and cheering at the companies who are firing them? Or do they want to be the side that stands for their empowerment and autonomy, however they themselves choose to define it?
As of Thursday, Ungar-Sargon’s blog post was accompanied by a Newsweek video debunking the rumor.
