Looking at exit poll data (if believable) Trump supporters included a large number/percentage of fairly well-heeled income people. Makes one wonder. White, "Christian", male, decently salaried, extra-urban - not only the dust-bowl and rust-belt unemployed. 
It is so telling, as you suggest, that the clericalist "war on secularism" is actually resisting the leadership you suggest is needed.  Sadly, I think that you are right.