I agree with you in large part, although it was white women who got Trump elected. They've bought into neoliberal economic policies that harm them as well, in large part because white women tend to vote in the interests of their men, rather than in their own actual interest the way other demographics of women do - and they've all been brainwashed into valuing "culture" aspects over their own financial interests. Then they all turn around and blame feminism because it's a convenient scapegoat.
And aside from the culture aspects, people on the Right tend to subscribe to a "moral" outlook where making money is seen as verification that you are a good person who is doing things right and being rewarded for it, so it's a tough sell to get them to look at the ways that predatory capitalism is making things tough for everyone but the top 1%.
The Strict Father model believes that the world is difficult and people have to be self-disciplined in order to survive in a difficult world. Rewards and punishments by the parent are beneficial to the children because they help to teach the child to be able to survive on its own. In this way of thinking, punishment for disobedience is understood as a form of love. “According to this model, if you are obedient, you will become self-disciplined, and only if you are self-disciplined can you succeed. Success is therefore a sign of having been obedient and having become self-disciplined. Success is a just reward for acting within this moral system. This makes success moral.”
In this way of looking at the world, wealth is then conflated with morality, and poverty with immorality. Taxation of the rich is seen as punishing those who have done what is right and succeeded at it. Competition is seen as a necessary part of maintaining self-discipline. “Without competition, there is no source of reward for self-discipline, no motivation to become the right kind of person. If competition were removed, self-discipline would cease and people would cease to develop and use their talents. The individual’s authority over himself would decay.”
We certainly engage in a lot of self-destructive activities in this country. I'm not entirely sure what the solution is, except to at least try to create pockets of active pro-social values and hope that they spread.
