The billionaires run a massive far-right propaganda machine. The messaging isn’t at see what your Republican officials are doing for you! it’s at if you don’t vote R, you’re effeminate and a traitor. You have to vote R to own the libs, kick out the immigrants and stop the transgender menace.

The people who respond to that kind of messaging don’t actually care that they’re suffering so long as marginalized people are suffering more than they are.