You are behind the times. The left is now the domain of the affluent. They couldn't give a damn about the underprivileged. They've redefined all the relevant terms, so they can feel good about their nasty ways.
Your comment is straight out of the Trump playbook!
Actually its straight out of looking at the people in supposedly left wing parties parties like the UK's Labour Party, and the reaction of the working class to them.
The ALP, like many other Social Democrat parties lurched to the right, buying into some of the "Free Market" stuff, but the Liberal & National Parties (in Coalition) went further. (by the way, the "Liberals" are much closer to the UK Tories than anything called "liberal" elsewhere)
The ALP is slowly finding its way back to its roots, whereas the Coalition seemed to have lost its way completely, courting the extreme Right, with so-called "strategists" telling them that is their "base".(with compulsory voting, the idea of a "base" doesn't mean a lot)
In the recent Australian Federal Elections, a lot of what pass for "moderates" in the Liberal Party lost their seats to a new, very loose grouping of "Teal Independents", who were offering a philosophy more like that of the classic version of the Liberal Party.
Various crazies say that voters deserted the Liberal Party "because they weren't Right wing enough".
They supposedly said "Rather than vote for a "woke" Lib, I might as well vote for really woke candidates!"
Sounds like "cutting off their nose to spite their face", if they put up "more conservative" (read radical right") in those seats at the next election, as they have been shown the mood of the electorate.
The washup was that the ALP formed government, & have been trying to reform the dysfunctional wage setting structure.
Employers, of course, are starting to shriek & scream, as always.
The Right have been trying to push the "we're for the workers" barrow, but people who haven't had a pay rise for nearly ten years aren't buying it!
If, as the Coalition propaganda has it, "Lefties" were an elite minority of "latte sippers", where do all the ALP votes come from election after election?
After elections, voters for the losing side usually tolerate the new government, especially if they are competent, even if not to their taste.
With the bunch of drones the Coalition fielded for the previous 9 years, tolerance was wearing thin!
P.S. I you want "nasty", Google Robodebt!