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Absolutely do. I wouldn't call it an organization that puts morality ahead of everything else, but yes, morality is absolutely an important consideration.
No political organization can govern solely on morality and survive, unfortunately, so I doubt it'll ever be priority #1. But it can and should be an important factor.
The guys that blatantly take money from corporations to enact agendas that have destroyed many people's lives and have doomed us regarding climate to keep gas prices low have morality?
I dunno, I've seen quite a bit of investment into green energy recently, along with regulation on corporations. Just the other day the FTC made a new rule to make opting out of subscriptions easier. That is not a pro-corporate position. Now, I'll grant they're not communist, they do still associate with corporations. That may be a fools errand in the end, but power is power and corporations have an enormous amount.
It's also a bit doomerist to think we're actually doomed still on climate, the end to that one isn't written yet.
That investment into green energy was paired with the largest ever increase in domestic oil drilling permits, while flirting with announcements to tariff Chinese made solar and wind power in addition to the tariffs on cheap EVs from China to protect Tesla.
To your second point Florida was just hit twice this year by once in a millenia hurricanes, and Floridians want to rebuild and most polling gives Republicans a win in all levels of government there. And Floridia, for once, isn't that special. If scotus didn't remove abortion protection Americans would vote for even more rapid climate change, instead of mostly rapid climate change.
Yeah, I'm not super happy about drilling permits.
Tbf, it probably wouldn't be too bright to allow China to do to our EV manufacturers (not just Tesla, all of them) what happened to our domestic steel mills. This is a case where I think some tariffs are reasonable.
Gonna take a lot more than hurricanes to doom us. We are a horrendously robust animal, if you look at our history. QoL decline and ensuing political instability? Sure.