 And then the reinvention of the Republican Party as some sort of anti-market pro-worker entity, with former hedge funder and Peter Thiel protégé J.D. Vance as its new avatar, accelerates the spinning head since. What are we to make of all this? To help us sort it all out, we're joined by Brandon Mancia, Regional Director of the United Auto Workers Region 9A, which covers eastern New York State, New England, and Puerto Rico.