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They report this as "despite", but it is very explicitly intentional. Poisoning people against their own best interests has been a strategy among AnCaps and Conservative Libertarians since the Coolidge Administration.
Young people are told pensions are a form of theft. Old people are told education is a waste of money. Middle income people are told any kind of unemployment relief or public employment is corrupt and misused by some cultural or ethnic other.
As often as not, liberals get fed this toxic stew as conservatives. Which leads liberals to embrace Means Testing over universal programs and to be smug when a conservative state denies something like Medicare expansion rather than fighting for people on the other side of a state line.
How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy
I know so many people who said they voted for Trump in the primary because he was the weakest candidate in the GOP field.