Truth be (IMHO) President Trump is much more an old style Truman Democrat, than a Republican, that’s how he took over the blue collar working class. President Trump is also not a true small government politician, but is much less meddlesome to the average person than modern Democrats (who desire to run every aspect of our lives). This is shown in his rollback of regulations that hobble business and common folk and the (Kennedy style) tax cuts.
The modern Democrat party is now the party of the rich and privileged, who much prefer to lecture and condemn us “lowers” than actually help anybody (but themselves)... hence their disdain for the “deplorables”, that once were their core voters #RustyIrony. As the Democrat party moves further looney Left, their one core blue collar voters will move closer to the “Trump party” (formally known as the GOP).
I can't argue with that. They're turning on the seniors because the social security fund and debt is crimping their style on spend spend spend, globalize globalize globalize.
Trump's conservative style is a pragmatic style, one that I don't mind and it may seem a bit liberal to some but it's really a balanced touch in managing a very large and very rich Nation. Industry, the environment, Health care, transportation and trade need Federal Government oversight. Not over regulation.