E.J. Dionne: American workers will see through Trump's con

Boston • On a holiday weekend set aside to honor the American working class, it is hard to escape the sense that American workers find themselves exploited by our politics — and particularly by our president.If wage earners could turn all the warm words they have heard into dollars, they would be rich. But they never receive the rights or benefits that are supposed to come their way.Decade after decade, we engage in more or less the same arguments about economic justice, yet over the