by Andrea Widburg
American Thinker
Faced with Teamster members who refuse to get with the program and support Kamala Harris, the union leadership has decided to refrain from endorsing anyone.
In the 1940s, the Teamsters were loyal Roosevelt Democrats. However, according to the WaPo, that changed in the 1950s when congressional Democrats investigated Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, two Teamster presidents. Out of spite, therefore, the Teamsters endorsed Richard Nixon in 1960. By 1964 and, again,1968, though, the Teamsters had returned to their Democrat roots, endorsing LBJ and Humphrey.
In 1972, the Teamsters supported Richard Nixon, who had been actively courting them. The WaPo doesn’t mention it, but I’m pretty sure that part of the support for Nixon was because the Teamsters were so fervently anti-communist. They didn’t like what they saw happening in the Democrat party, which had begun its long slide into open communism.