Earlier this month, Donald Trump scored a major victory deep in the heart of red state America — saving two hundred union jobs in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). At a White House event with the union, Trump declared: “Let this serve as a warning to any federally appointed board: if you betray American workers, then you will hear two simple words: ‘You’re fired.’”

Though the cherished New Deal institution has long stood as one of the Left’s most enduring accomplishments — a sterling example of what the public sector is capable of — here it was the Right who actually stepped up to defend its workers. Even as they were launching an all-out war on the United States Postal Service and its unionized employees.

Now, the Republican Party is raising the reactionary banner of “America First” over the TVA. And even worse, we’ve stood by and let it all happen.