We are therefore finally witnessing a real upward workers’ revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others refuse to follow government orders, telling the powerful that, according to a popular left-wing formula, if there is no justice, there is no there is no peace.

Naturally, the left hates him.

For more than a century, leftists have been talking about such a revolt. But if you really paid attention, the real role of the working class in its workers’ revolution was not to make the decisions — it was to do what the “intellectual vanguard” of the left told them.

A workers’ revolution directed by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class does not want what the left wants. The working class wants jobs, a stable economy, safe streets, low inflation, schools that teach things, and a conservative, non-adventurous foreign policy that won’t get many working class people killed. He is unenthusiastic about gender fluidity, critical race theory, “modern monetary theory,” adventures abroad, and defunding the police.

Worse still, a large part of leftist self-image is about feeling superior to the working class and openly expressing contempt. It only takes a few minutes tuning into left-leaning media outlets like NPR, CNN, or MSNBC to hear the contempt for working-class Americans, the people of “air country,” people who live in the middle of nowhere.

So naturally, the idea that those people could organize a revolution is intolerable.

That is why, even as they legitimize and valorize rioting and outright violence by left-wing groups, leftists vilify all working-class protest movements, dating back to before the Tea Party. In Canada, the press even tried to claim that the thousands of truckers heading to Ottawa, the capital, were in fact Russian agents. When that failed, he fell back to his old standard, calling them fascists, Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists.

But no one believes it because it’s as obvious a lie as the claims about the Russians. Leftists talk about race because they don’t want people to notice that they are waging a class war.

And this class war, which has been going on for a few decades of working class stagnation and upper class prosperity, has accelerated during the pandemic.

Under COVID, we have had “lockdowns” in which the laptop class stayed home “safe” while the working class delivered groceries to their doorsteps. Meatpacking plants, grocery store checkout lines and, crucially, trucking remained open, while law firms, universities and the media closed and sent staff home to work.

For a brief time, these non-remote workers were heroes. Even Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told people to thank a trucker for his service. But it did not last.

Now that truckers and other working class people are pushing back against the absurd COVID restrictions of the laptop class, they are a fringe, a minority, a group of white supremacists.

But they are none of that.

The “white supremacist” track we can write right now. If white supremacy were a serious thing, leftists – like the Jussie Smollett hoax – wouldn’t have to make it up.

As for a “marginal minority,” as Trudeau called them, well, like Elon Musk noted in a tweet, if the positions of the Canadian government enjoyed substantial support, the truckers would have faced a significant number of counter-protesters. But they didn’t. The government itself is the fringe minority, with its only support coming from the loyal sycophants of the media.

In the United States, meanwhile, Joe Biden — whom a self-styled “cabal” of media, tech and political types organized to set up just over a year ago — is questioning the territory of the “ worst president ever” according to Rasmussen and Gallup polls.

Gallup’s survey shows voter satisfaction hit a new “dark” low, and Rasmussen found that 54% of voters consider Biden the “worst” president in recent memory.

“Collectively, satisfaction at the start of 2022 in various areas is about as bad as it has been over the two decades of Gallup measurement,” the pollster said. And in the highly respected General Social Survey, Americans’ happiness has reached record highs.

Again, Biden’s primary source of support is the press, which will always support a Democrat, especially against labor opposition.

But as a Twitter user Greg Price noted“If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse immediately. If politicians quit their jobs, the world would become a better place. We need truckers more than anyone.

Truckers have understood this. Right now, Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden are worried about the exit of truckers. They should really be concerned about truckers staying home.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a law professor at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.