Red scares, possible Business Plot, Powell memo, etc. led to corporate and high bracket tax cuts, trickle-down neoliberalism, political-capital collusion and corruption, widening inequality, and decline in social trust that undid the incentives and conditions that nurtured and expanded the middle class post-WW2. It wasn't socialist "free stuff" (that capital owners shower/ed on themselves while taking away healthcare from the poor), scapegoat groups, unions, high taxes, or any other lies or misrepresentations.

There's only everyone vs. obscenely wealthy, their enablers, and the foolish proximity to wealth wannabes.