We can't reverse this trend, because it has served as the cultural identity of American conservatives since the Vietnam days of hard hats versus doves. It will always be about rugged individualism and toughness for American conservatives. It is hardwired into their DNA and is expressed through their politics as an inevitable downstream consequence. Hard hats, war hawks, ditto heads, tea baggers, MAGA. The line of evolution is so clear. This is why these people don't see wealth inequality or social inequality as a problem. They have no empathy for others. They just want to tell people that they should accept inequality as a consequence of personal action, because in their head institutionalized injustice doesn't exist. American conservatism since Vietnam can basically be boiled down to social indifference as an identity marker.