[TAdams8591]

"I don't accept the premise of the title of this piece. Conservatives as a whole did not lose here. Republicans did."

I was thinking the same thing. You are exactly right.

[outofstyle]

I am a conservative. My views are less effectively represented after this election. My guess is that other conservatives feel the same way. So in that sense conservatives lost. That is not the same thing as saying conservatism lost/