It appears that Donald Trump has managed to do what no one else could do - make conservatives
hate working-class whites as much as liberals do.

Conservative writers who have scoffed at both Trump and his supporters include National Review's Kevin Williamson, who said in March that working class communities "deserve to die."
"Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap," he wrote. "Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. ... The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump's speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin."

The National Review even doubled-down on this.
Conservatives have always blamed the victims for their ills. It's what they do. But now they are blaming their entire base.

Call it death and The Donald: Analysis of primary election results so far shows that counties with high white mortality rates are also likely to vote Trump.
Stripped down to its essence, the G.O.P. elite view is that working-class America faces a crisis, not of opportunity, but of values. That is, for some mysterious reason many of our citizens have, as Mr. Ryan puts it, lost “their will and their incentive to make the most of their lives.” And this crisis of values, they suggest, has been aided and abetted by social programs that make life too easy on slackers.
The problems with this diagnosis should be obvious. Tens of millions of people don’t suffer a collapse in values for no reason. Remember, several decades ago the sociologist William Julius Wilson argued that the social ills of America’s black community didn’t come out of thin air, but were the result of disappearing economic opportunity. If he was right, you would have expected declining opportunity to have the same effect on whites, and sure enough, that’s exactly what we’re seeing.

Which should be a self-evident observation. Hell, it's even a foundational belief of capitalism - that millions of people can't be wrong.

But the Republican elite can’t handle the truth. It’s too committed to an Ayn Rand story line about heroic job creators versus moochers to admit either that trickle-down economics can fail to deliver good jobs, or that sometimes government aid is a crucial lifeline. So it ends up lashing out at its own voters when they refuse to buy into that story line.

Of course the Democrats are no better, just different.
As Thomas Frank explained in Listen, Liberal, Democrats are also a party of the elites, the top 10% professionals.
The white working class is being destroyed before our eyes, but economic issues aren't even on the Democrats agenda unless they can be spun as minority issues, not class issues.
Consider this amazing statement by Hillary.

“If we broke up the big banks tomorrow—and I will if they deserve it, if they pose a systemic risk, I will—would that end racism?”
“No!” the audience yelled back.
Clinton continued to list scenarios, asking: “Would that end sexism? Would that end discrimination against the LGBT community? Would that make people feel more welcoming to immigrants overnight?”

Where does one begin with this?
Forget for a moment that Hillary has no concrete plan for ending discrimination, and think about how this would sound to someone just struggling to make ends meet.
Pure economic concerns and class concerns don't even factor into this equation.

Obviously, no one ever promised a piece of legislation would “end” hate and injustice. Anyone even notionally sincere about battling the prejudices and cognitive dissonances that oligarchs and overlords have forever promulgated to divide and conquer humanity understands that “racism” and “sexism” are not forces you can arrest with a pen.

Democrats rarely even think in terms of 'solidarity' anymore. 'Opportunity' in a 'meritocracy' is now the mainstream philosophy of the Democrats.
And everyone knows that if you fail in a meritocracy then you have no one to blame but yourself. Which sounds just like Republican elitism.