The old version is that people saw themselves as being more likely in the future to need a tax break to benefit the wealthy than they were to need unemployment benefit.
The new version is probably the aspirational hope that one day, they too might meet the right person to get awarded a corrupt Government procurement contract.
Because the one thing they haven't moved an inch on, is hating the foreigns.
And for your average Tory voter that is still the absolute bedrock of their pyramid of needs.
Maybe they're not being fooled.
Maybe they're just weighing up neoliberalism versus fascism and thinking that four years of bog-standard crony-capitalism, while imperfect, is still better than whatever incoherent, simple-minded mess this is.
I dunno. Previously you had relatively sensible people in charge who knew they had to say terrible things to keep their terrible supporters onside.
Now the people who were once the terrible supporters are now the terrible people in charge.
Well, not really evidently otherwise I wouldn't have felt the need to ask.
Your phrasing of "the hope was" seemed to suggest a broader feeling or analysis that went beyond the personal wishes of people emotionally attached to that particular outcome.
I do remember reading quite recently that the next predicted global food shortage is likely to be milk, as it (and its byproducts) become increasingly popular amongst the growing Asian middle-classes and demand is starting to massively outstrip supply.
Although I accept that I might just have been the victim of targeted propaganda by the milk marketing board.