What the hell are you talking about? They've been trying (and succeeding) to deregulate the stock market since the 1960's. You've likely only experienced a deregulated market, so how do you even know what a regulated market it like? Also, we only had the barest minimum regulations to begin with...
Think about who has time to sit around and take surveys and who can't because they have to work 3 jobs to make ends meet. These kinds of surveys usually have a bit of bias because of that.
I find it embarrassing that Americans are so uninformed about their own history, that they don't understand what rich people think made America great in the past. They think it means their childhood, and not the so obviously named guilded age. Of course it's going to get worse, because they want to make this the same country that allowed robber Barrons to rise. We have a lot of regulations and agencies to dismantle before we get there.
He is far from the first flim-flam snake oil man making it big and performing atrocities in America. You could even look at the founding of the country as a sort of real estate scam gone darkly awry.
So privately owned businessess are only free to make their own choices as long as those choices are to discriminate? Small government was obviously never the goal.
Wow so Tesla finally found its target audience, huh?