how the hell is a conservative party "disproportionately conservative"?
I feel like we need to be more specific in describing the GOP base. it's not a simple as "working-class" - there's a LOT of POC who are working class and they're not voting Republican. you can also have a college degree and still be working class, they're generally not Republican either.
the GOP isn't working-class, it's TRAILER TRASH. white, uneducated, gay-bashing, self-loathing, "the Bible is the only thing I understand and I don't even understand that" TRAILER TRASH.
Important to remember that Trump didn't bring a lot of new working class voters to the GOP. White working class folks voted Republican in 2016 at about the same rate they have been.
He *did* have a lot of upper-middle class folks switch parties to vote for him. And in both elections, about 60% of folks who voted for him were in the top 50% of incomes.
White folks without a college degree are the majority of his voters, yes, but it's not limited to those making under 50k.