You can wrap your head around it when you understand that it’s all about race and has been from the beginning. Only 0.1% of the electorate is concerned about “redistribution of wealth” (as the obscenely wealthy call it). That doesn’t affect elections. What most white people are concerned about, now, in FDR’s time, in Eisenhower’s time, and in all periods of American history, is fair treatment of black people. They are against it. Sixty percent of white people oppose fair treatment of black people. At all levels and in all domains. Economic, judicial, and social. When you understand that, you can wrap your head around American politics.