A lot of American discussion about economics only makes sense if you imagine yourself as a small to medium business owner who is materially comfortable, but is struggling to expand their wealth into the millionaire/billionaire range. You can only interpret taxation as an unfair obstacle designed by the even wealthier class above you. You have no sympathy for the lower strata, because they're just instruments for you. Your main political concern isn't liberation, because you're already liberated. The main concern is psychological comfort and becoming even more massively rich.

So while you're focused on your stupid ski dealership or construction business, you're watching all these finance guys do laps around you. And since you're a pig brained American, the fact that you haven't gained billionaire status yet is because of Marxist taxation laws or billionaire collusion to make everyone but them into proletariat.

That's the real crux of it I think. American small business dipshits do feel a threat they'll become working class, or might have to actually work for the first time in their life, and to them this is the same threat as the most cartoon villain version of communism. Any threat to their comfort or power is interpreted as slavery. It's why these hogs are the ideological base for fascism.