Listen. You can make up your own pointed narrative to prove what you have chosen to believe. The reality is that if we want to help Americans economically, we have shown over the decades that programs to help them have worked. The Republican narrative that the poor are worse off with government help is self-serving, bigoted and cruel. The cadre of conservative billionaires don't want to pay higher taxes that will be used to help "those people." Thus, they invent a myth that the best way to help the poor is to NOT provide them any help at all. This way, according to them, their misery will give the poor the incentive to become educated and industrious, which has never worked in all of human history.
Their objective is to keep taxes on the rich low and keep government out of their hair. But these people's numbers are small, so they need to fund propaganda groups like the Heritage Foundation to create false data and spread the message to middle-class conservatives, who can be conned into swallowing their lies. Thus the pro-life conservative-leaning worker who listens to Rush Limbaugh will repeatedly vote for the party that is less likely to protect his safety, less likely to protect his job, and less likely to benefit him economically.
Trump is no populist, his polices are pure Republican.