I understand your point about the role of the president not to take sides but to represent all the people. Romney famously said, “Corporations are people, my friend,” and SCOTUS found corporate personhood in the 14th Amendment under Equal Protection and Due Process. Unions too, enjoy these protections as well as under the 1st Amendment right to peaceably assemble.

Not many would doubt the decades-long tilt toward corporate ‘rights’ at the expense of unions, nor the lack of worker support in successive administrations. Not many would be cognizant of the finer points of constitutional amendments, either. Then there is perception, and I would argue that many do perceive that government favors corporations over unions, and no one could doubt the tectonic shift in wealth toward the wealthiest.

If President Biden plays the UAW strike as generic support for unions over corporations, as he has made clear in his past pronouncements and his history, I think he’d likely find a deep well of support for his re-election in the middle-class unions who rightfully pride themselves in their own history as helping build middle-class America.

Ayn Rand be damned! Workers are the real ‘makers;’ corporate oligarchs are the real ‘takers.’ Workers made America great, not autocratic politicians and wealthy narcissists. It is well past time that workers, the backbone of America, got paid their due.