I can't speak as a Republican (so I risk showing my ignorance) but in a way, I think you actually have it backwards. Republicans usually care a lot about the in

I can't speak as a Republican (so I risk showing my ignorance) but in a way, I think you actually have it backwards. Republicans usually care a lot about the individual real people that they know personally. However, they tend to regard broad identifiers such as "African American" or "LGBT" or "working class" as abstract artificial entities in much the same way that you think of corporations. So I think it's less "Republicans love corporations and hate people" than "Republican politicians have lots of friends in upper corporate management and want to help out their friends".