traditional bogeymen like immigrants and socialism along with spoonfed ideology will always activate a percentage of the american population into forming groups and atavistically attacking percieved "government" barriers to success when in reality they're just doing their funders bidding (Koch, whoever's their contractors etc.), and fighting off the potential for more regulation of their sector.
i think the dream is no, don't tax the rich. one day i'm going to be rich, you'll see, and i want all of that waiting there for me when i get there