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(You copied the wrong link I think, or else the AFL-CIO's lobbyists are way more hardcore than I thought.) The unions are still solidly democratic, there just aren't enough union members to matter. That was what the whole New Democrat thing was all about, giving up on being a leftist party at all and being a kinder, gentler right wing party instead because after Reagan that looked like the best that could be done, and the New Left had already shifted the focus of the left away from labor and towards identity politics, for entirely justified reasons that still mean that it's 2016 and Bernie Sanders looks radical.