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It depends of which neck of conservatism you're looking at.

There's what I call the Capitalism Conservative, or the Ayn Randian conservative, named for the author of Atlus Shrugged, a book many of them idolize. These people live and die by their belief in the free market. It's a sliding spectrum, but perfectly realized it materializes as a belief that the government has no business regulating anything in the private business sector. Everything from antitrust laws to outlawing segregation can be viewed as "wrong," for forcing the Invisible Hand before it was ready (Ayn Rand notably believed both of these examples, according to her for that reason). These people tend to either be 1) very rich, b) have a very poor grasp of how the market works in real life, or c) a near-deification attitude toward the rich. Strong believers in Trickle Down Economics, and quick to cry "SOCIALISM!" at the government doing literally anything other than starting wars. Near Boogeyman-level of paranoia around socialism, but likely cannot properly define it, and will likely pretend that things like 40 hour workweeks and child labor laws arent socialism. Lots of residual Cold War era red-scare McCarthyism.

2) The Religious conservative. Not necessarily Christian, although they often do skew that way. Extremely old-world social values. The flavors of the day are LGBTQ and Abortion hate, but they've been around forever. Historically have cried "devilry" over rap music, metal, rock music, jazz, video games, violent movies, TV, magazines, books, fairy tales, those gosh darn horseless carriages, and the works of William Shakespeare. Often found pretending that the 50s were some sort of beacon of moral and sexual purity. Sometimes will claim that they "aren't AGAINST these things, they just don't want to see it" as their justification for quashing free speech, expression, etc.

3) The "Modern" conservative, so named because they've gotten a lot more popular lately. The Democrats are forming underground baby canabalism rings with Tom Hanks, and replacing people with clones grown in Nancy Pelosi's basement. They have a Jewish Space Laser they use to assassinate people with Covid, and secretly want to sell us all into Chinese slavery circuits. JFK Jr will return from the dead and declare himself president with Donald Trump as his God Emperor, and he'll be the 18th president because every election since the 1960s has been an illegitimate front run by the corporations. And they're dumping chemicals in the rivers to turn your kids trans and the freaking frogs gay. Lots of overlap with QAnon, but not necessarily 100%.

Overlaping trends: extreme distrust of power, degerence to hierarchies (ironic, as if the government is somehow less trustworthy than the ultra-wealthy), belief in something "bigger" than themselves that can't be understood (God, conspiracies, whatever), belief that things were better in the past, resistance to change, blaming modern problems on groups that have been "other'd."