They didn't lose the working class, but there are some chunks of the working class that they did lose. 

A lot of those groups pretty much ended up getting bombarded with propaganda for years and we are seeing the results of that. 

Like, I know a guy who is in a union and gets a lot of really great benefits from that Union. He works in a state where he has colossal benefits that only exist because of Democrats. 

He spends huge chunks of time on his job listening to right wing AM radio.  This has him convinced that not only is the union bad for him, but so are the worker protections that the Democrats in his state have created.  He walks around thinking that he would be making big money if he wasn't part of the Union.  He would be working less hours. Everything in his life would be better if he was in a red State, with no Union.

In reality, Non-Union workers in his field in red States, besides, Alaska, make significantly less money than he does.  They also work longer hours on average and with worse conditions.  

But that's not what he heard on the AM radio, so he doesn't believe that's true.  

Like I also have a family member who has been abused mercilessly by most employers they've had in their life, who actively acknowledges that the people who have a union in their field seem to get paid better and be treated better, but also things that unions are the devil because they are addicted to Fox News.  

It's a lot of stuff like that.