Not real smart if it took him this long. The demonrats have not been hiding who the are or what they want to do.
A lot of average guys don’t pay much attention to politics, and take things at face value. Many of them spend all their time working and earning a living.
True, however, the GOP establishment have gone out of their way to not try to win the votes of these voters.
A MAGA Congressman from Texas was recently on Steve Bannon’s show. He was saying that when he wanted to campaign in Hispanic areas of Texas, the State GOP leaders told him “no, don’t go there, those aren’t our voters”.
There has been collusion between the 2 parties to make sure that the working class and middle class vote is split along tribal lines. And that neither party does anything to help them economically.