If you're going to look at it that way, then we have a mostly-white middle-class who is experiencing for the very first time the government wielded against it a

If you're going to look at it that way, then we have a mostly-white middle-class who is experiencing for the very first time the government wielded against it as a weapon. (They are less than thrilled.) But I don't think that's exactly what's going on; I think it's a clumsy attempt at a rehash of Lyndon Johnson-Great Society-style governance. And it's obviously not working, so there's a rush to find the most plausible people to blame.