The Trump administration and many conservatives were overjoyed that United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain endorsed Trump’s 15% auto tariffs as “a way to bring back auto jobs (sic).”

That goodwill lasted about 48 hours until Fain rushed on to Face the Nation on CBS yesterday to trash as “deplorable” Trump’s sensible executive order to stop federal workers from unionizing.

Fain shouldn’t be mistaken as a friend of blue collar workers. He has been one of the most vocal opponents of right-to-work laws that give employees the right NOT to join a union.

Militant unions like UAW are what drove thousands of manufacturing jobs out of Michigan to right-to-work states like Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Republicans need to understand that there is a big difference between the interests of union workers and union bosses.