White working and middle classes had only adopted libert anism reactively when they saw the welfare state as supporting undeserving others. But once they glimpsed the possibility of exercising that power themselves, would want to wield a powerful state to their own benefit? i think actually, trump was correct about now, does that mean they like a among a mass of people,. not just conservative intellectuals, there's been a shift in understanding of the american economy and how that interacts with state power and, you know, various policies. It might be among the policy intellectuals genuinely a shift, but at some level it can already be enfolded into typical scape goating rhetoric which picks on ethnic minorities