This is basically one of those atrocious "I fully support labor...except for the Sacred Relationship between teacher and graduate student instructor" articles, just applied to political campaigns [that we like] jacobinmag.com/2021/06/dianne…
The problem with the whole genre, of course, is that EVERY employer has a story for why organized labor won't work in their workplace. "I support labor in general but not in this specific case" is the hoariest play in the union-busing playbook
If fighting corporate power is important, it's important enough to pay workers a decent wage and give them decent working conditions
Admittedly, there might be some tough cases when we're talking about threadbare local campaigns or something, but the Sanders campaign was a $200M fundraising juggernaut! The special pleading is ridiculous

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