"Regulations" are Repub-speak for any infringements on their ability to exploit the consumer with impunity.

FDR said it best:  "It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach."

BTW, Democrats have never been a really organized political force - it's not in our nature.  Harry Truman once said famously that "if you want to live like a Rockefeller, you have to vote like a Democrat."  For Repubs, of course, tax cuts - usually in the service of only the top income levels are all they live for - as the recent debacle on healthcare in the House attests.