If you ever wonder who’s losing, in conversation or in politics, just look at who gets the most aggressively defensive. In an editorial explaining how “right to work” states operate, the WSJ described Unions’ reaction as jumping “immediately to Defcon 1.”

Unions know that they cannot compete against nonunionized workers. They are at “Defcon 1” because they know that they can only exist if no nonunionized workers are allowed to compete with them.