Because the elites are a bunch of right-wingers, right?
In fact, even on foreign policy, I'd be surprised if the forever wars in the middle east enjoy majority support among the right. Isn't isolationism also right-wing? If it's at all helpful to classify policies into 'left' and 'right'..
Isolationism could be left wing or right wing.
Our entire current wave is based in 90s tea party astroturfing by billionaires that got out of control when it encountered the militia movement.
Public ownership of certain systems does not imply abolishing money.