>>>"Excuse me? Conservative and progressive don't belong in the same sentence, let alone in the same party"
No, not true at ALL. The conservative movement in the USA has ALWAYS had a large element of the progressive in it.
A standard, European conservative is backward looking. An American one builds on tradition, sure, but has always been progressive in the way they react to liberty and freedom. A European conservative is always out to LIMIT freedom, whereas an American one is out to further it. That is a progressive outlook.
I am also using progressive in its proper context. Not in the way the socialist left has coopted it, by the way.
You might want to rethink the use of that word. The dictionary includes a political definition under the word "progressive." You will always be misunderstood if you use the term progressive in conjunction with conservative. You may as well say "liberal republican."