Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said the permanent political class's embrace of illegal immigration and amnesty is reflective of their lack of care for American workers.
I think this nails it, the elite has a view there is no place for blue collar workers in America, most of the elite never held a real job, had there hands dirty, while those who made America great during WW2 and after understood the idea of labor and what it could mean for this country.