Catholics and Jews see themselves as set apart from mainstream protestant society and are therefore allowed to collectivize and lobby for their own interests, including the founding of separate intuitions and the nepotistic elevation of their own inside exhibition institutions The organized minority defeats the unorganized majority Evangelicals see the American civil religion as their own true theology and have therefore been taught a false doctrine of political pacifism, big government is bad so best never to seek power, and if one does obtain elected office the only Christian duty is to sit on that power and ensure it is not used Never hire your own, never show favoritism, never seek generational influence over institutions, that would be cheating in the open marketplace of ideas Finally, American elites signal their status by hating rural Southern evangelicals, even the rare evangelical that does enter the good graces of power immediately starts attack their own (see David French) Evangelicals are gatekept out of even conservative institutions and respond by developing a reciprocal hatred for those intuitions, this creates the understandable but unfortunate anti-intellectual streak that compels Evangelicals to encourage their kids to become contractors instead of lawyers Honorable and profitable work to be sure, but not the kind that builds elite institutions

There are a thousand other reasons we could discuss Dispensational theology and an obsession with "bringing about the rapture" is not really conducive to building long term intuitions or investing in political power If you think the world is going to end tomorrow, or your job is to bring about that end as quickly as possible, then you don't really waste time on institutions designed to influence culture in 100 years There can an probably should be a book on the entire subject but its twitter so I just listed the first few obvious things that came to mind