The "upper class" will always use whatever tools are at its disposal to further its own agenda. Doesn't matter what the tools are. The "upper class" has done plenty of Trump band-wagonism, just from evangelical and corporate elite circles. Look back in history: what was Carnegie trying to do with all his libraries? Not pure altruism. What did the "upper class" do with women's lib? Turn women into workers and consumer from whom more profit could be extracted. What has the "upper class" done with concern for the environment? Corporate greenwashing. What has the "upper class" done with religion? Used it for control, from Myanmar and India and Pakistan to the US to the Thirty Years War in the 1600s to Nigeria today.

Just want to keep things in perspective. Everything is a tool when it comes to retention of power: religion, conscience, nature, food. And no one should be fooled. People should all realize the limits of the "support" and strive to do the right thing and treat each other well regardless of those larger forces. Powers & principalities & politics have been discussed since antiquity.