Way back in 2009 a blogger named Davis X Machina summed the mindset up thus:
“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”
There’s also this classic line from a Trump supporter during the 2019 shutdown: “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”