They don’t have a class-based view of politics, at best they only think of some 50% of society as being bad and authoritarian but it’s fundamentally a moral divide rather than class conflict.

Remember when Mitt Romney said something to the effect of “47% of the country will never vote for us”, implying that it was because they were all on welfare and therefore bought by the Democrats?

Dems basically assume the same thing, except for them it’s because 47% of the country is irrevocably stupid or evil or both.