Could this be why the Republicans think American workers won't work because of unemployment benefits

[Hortensis]

1. Seriously, applying THEIR justifications and self image

to lesser people in general, no.

Fwiw, normal aspects of conservative personality have been twisted and harnessed to serve increasingly extremist RW ideology. Which serves those among the very wealthy who wish to eliminate taxation and regulation of their actions.

Conservatives by nature have a relatively dark view of human nature, tending to believe people will behave badly if left to themselves. This is a very general statement, of course, and the belief varies greatly in degree. Pretty obvious where this is going: Of course people given $600 a week would be delighted to refuse to work while it keeps coming.

Similarly, conservatives tend to have a belief in a natural order, which is incorporated into Christianity, as well as other religions. That is, that people behave in more and less deserving ways and tend to be naturally rewarded or punished accordingly. Not irrational at all when relation to reality is maintained.

These days it's not. It's been deliberately skewed to encourage RWers to oppose progressive use of government to benefit society. The argument has become extreme to the point of encouraging eliminating all government programs because they injure society by encouraging people in dysfunctional behaviors, sloth, theft, destruction of moral codes. Dismantle it all to save society. Of course racism is a big motivator in this, but hardly the whole thing. Even receivers of entitlements are portrayed as not entitled -- they're sponges on society.

That last is a problem for those who paid into government programs all their working years, of course, leading to rebellions against those who'd take them away like the Tea Party and electing Trump. But hard-core "deserving" RWers nevertheless always know there are hoards of undeserving "others" being supported by the taxes of good, hardworking people like themselves.

Anyway, just imagine the disgust of a couple hundred of the stupider among the kind of Repubs now being elected who are being asked to embrace the swamp and keep throwing money at people who will of course keep refusing to work. Much better to funnel it to the deserving classes who'll use it to create jobs. And even those too smart to swallow all this whole, cynically using the argument to sack the populace to empower their donors, tend to believe in the transcendent truth behind it anyway.