Snicker, its a bit late to back-pedal at this point. He is just learning that he is losing his tax base and won’t have the money to give out freebees to his supporters.
Besides all the other usual leftist reasons, this might be another one that they’re working all kinds of angles to get money away from conservatives and people on the right, to redistribute to their leftist constituents. As long as conservatives have any wealth and are amongst rhe most productive segment of society, they can’t yet totally dismiss us. That bothers them a lot, to understate it.