On Monday, at the stroke of midnight, 45,000 dockworkers at 36 ports up and down the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike for the first time since 1977. J.P. Morgan estimates that the stoppage could cost the economy $5 billion per day. When asked by CNBC about the potentially catastrophic consequences, White House Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spluttered, "I have not been very focused on that."

Raimondo was on the cable news network to sing the praises of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. She may have helped bury her, instead. It's no wonder that the mainstream media is melting down over Harris's poor performance with working class voters. CNN warns that among union households, Harris is polling worse than any Democrat "in a generation." The New Yorker magazine asks, "Can Harris Stop Blue-Collar Workers from Defecting to Donald Trump?" The answer appears to be a bubble busting "no." One former local union leader from the swing state of Pennsylvania tells the glossy, “I don’t care what you see on TV. The grunts in the lunchroom love Trump.”

New polling from Gallup is causing even more grunts and moans inside the Beltway. For the first time since Bill Clinton nailed the working class vote in 1992, more likely voters now identify as "Republican" or "lean-Republican" than "Democrat" or "lean-Democrat." Gallup solemnly concludes, "The election is Trump’s and Republicans’ to lose."