/----/ "scare the white middle class into voting against its own economic interests."
Can you explain what the hell that means? All democRATs offer is higher taxes, more regulations, and fewer choices.
Okay..... let's look at that. Frankly, I'm happy there are regulations. I like clean air, safe food, safe products, clean water. I think most people are happy for these things. So for people who don't own a factory spilling toxins into the water table, regulations are actually a good thing. The GOP doesn't run on, "Hey, you know would be cool, dirty air and water!"
True story... when I was a kid in the 1960's, sometimes the pollution in Chicago was so bad you couldn't see the sky some days. Just kind of a smokey haze. But those darned Liberal Democrats (and some sensible Republicans, before the NUTS took over the party) decided clean air was generally a good thing.
Okay, so let's talk about taxes. I agree, they are too high now. Why are they doo high? Because genius Republicans decided that rich people were paying too much and shifted the burden onto working class folks.
More to the point, they got rid of the good union jobs, the worker's protections, came up with nice sounding terms like "Right to WorK' and "At Will Employment"
Now, this shit didn't fly in 1964 when Crazy Barry proposed them. So Tricky Dick took a new approach. Hey, them darkies and hippies and queers want to attack your nice middle class white society... Vote for me and I'll save them. Reagan, Bush Trump, have all done variations on this. (To his credit, Bush-43 tried to move away from it, and his party hated him for it.)