The right wing lives and thrives on created problems, so why should they actually solve anything? That people get more selfish when 'threatened' and then think that more selfishness in the answer is how you get a right-wing state death spiral, that then only usually survives on, wait for it, other people's/country's money, after it's already been robbed blind to begin with.
The fundamental scale that left vs right is resting on is between collective and individual, and since humanity is inherently based upon being collective, (beginning with families), reality inherently leans left. But this means the selfish right is therefore built on a lie, which makes ever other lie on top much easier to accept - which is how and why we wind up with the situation above - because divide and conquer works.