Republicans, beyond their principles, must have a deep emotional attachment to destroying people's lives. I understand their convictions. For evangelicals and fundamentalists creation is a shithole and it's wrong, heretical and anathema to try to make it better. Because God made it a shithole.
Improving it is blasphemy. Kindness is crazy, leading down the garden path of contentment. Suffering turns one's eyes to heaven and Jesus. 'Jesus, help me, I'm dying here' and such professions warm the hearts of evangelicals. Working your ass off for nothing has similar spiritual efficacy.
Suffering is good for the soul. The rich fuckers are social Darwinists. They think they're winners and infinitely deserving and that average citizens are uppity, presumptuous and promoting waste by expecting 'needs' such as food, clothing and shelter. If they deserved it they would have it.
Both groups are fatalists. Conviction and sentiment come together in attachments to competition, brutality, violence, and the wholesale plundering of individuals and societies. It is the will of God in some way, through predestination and the revelation of the elect as is seen in earthly success.