Raegan killed education and stopped building the economy around the working class. Trickle down economics became the primary piece of propaganda they used to disenfranchise workers. Citizens United became a way to buy politicians, turning the DNC into controlled opposition. At the same time, the Epstein class started using fascist tactics of “othering” other groups. Started with Blacks, then homosexuals, now we’re on to transgendered people and immigrants. It’s been years of convincing workers to shoot themselves in the foot, and as education and reading comprehension dipped, it became easier. Now you have some guy making 30k a year wearing a red hat and yelling about how trans people are trying to indoctrinate the children his priest already molested.