- Joined
- Nov 15, 2021
They never believed in it. Look at the support of gun control. What would happen if they got their way and you disagreed? They'd send geared up men after you and kill you.
A more serious answer is 1968-1984, with the Nixon Hardhats and Reagan Democrats. While working-class districts continued to send Democrats to Congress, in four out of five critical national elections, they helped Republicans win landslide elections for President. Working class Democrat voters didn't take kindly to rampaging joggers or surly Mexicans tearing up their neighborhoods, despised America-hating academics, never liked homosexuals, and refused to come around on America being morally equivalent to the USSR. That was when the Democrats came to really hate a large portion of America and regard it as a cancer that needs to be cut out so they can have power.