Russell Kirk, along with Edmund Burke, are the godfathers of modern conservatism. Read “The Conservative Mind” for a brilliant, well-reasoned manifesto of the conservative ideology.
In a nutshell... conservatives accept reality and adept to it, Ideologues deny reality and invent their own.
This has accelerated recently with the popularization of “post modernism” (deconstruction) in the academia - where nothing is taken as real, where truth is subjective, where logic itself is found illogical, where right and wrong is how it makes you feel. This has started to spread to the wider society with the advent of multicult, same sex marriage, BLM, etc.
We’ll be going through some dark times but at the end Reality will get its revenge.
Kirk-and-Burke ping.
Thank you.