I think we agree that otherising American white blue collar workers is going to be a lot harder for them than doing it to brown people in a far-away country.

I just think I'm more cynical. Capital has a huge and effective propaganda machine and contrary to the period of labour organising back in the day there is no labour press to present a counter-narrative. If the nice men on TV says that the strikers are dangerous left-wing Antifa terrorists this is going to be the consent that is manufactured.