I don’t support most of the gains of the left. I don’t like that most of them simply want to replace one nanny state with another. I don’t like that so many “conservatives” simply want to reinstitute and strengthen the Christian nanny state.
The idea is that nobody can be your nanny. With that is liberty. With a nanny comes tyranny, as C.S. Lewis warned. Notice how he said the well-meaning tyrants think this will get them into Heaven? Do you think he was talking about atheists or Christians?
Being a governmental conservative can coexist with being a social conservative only if you don’t think the socially conservative views can be enforced by law. Otherwise, you’re big-government, just on the other side of the coin from the big-government liberals.
Evidently you know nothing of America before the 1960s, it was a great place and getting stronger and better all the time, and it was so strictly socially conservative that you wouldn’t recognize it.
Today America is in decline and has become a very unpleasant place to live and raise families in for many Americans, because we got away from that social conservatism and we have become more European.
We were far beyond what you can probably imagine as being a “nanny” state, yet people were freer and happier and our communities and society thrived.