Unionist on drive against ‘the rich’

Fain (left) speaking as US President Joe Biden (right) joins the picket line outside the General Motors parts facility in Michigan. — ©2023 The New York Times Company

FOR as long as anyone can remember, the Indiana city of Kokomo has been a conservative stronghold. Ronald Reagan crushed Walter Mondale in Kokomo. Bill Clinton lost twice. So did Barack Obama.

The current mayor, a Republican, is running unopposed for re-election. It’s a town known for something it would prefer to forget: a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1923 that was the largest ever.

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