“Taking a well accepted description of conservatism and building a ill considered Conservatism based on bits and pieces of the original description brings up visions of brown shirts and black boots (valid or not).”
Bits and pieces?
I don’t see that here. What I do see is people, whom believe in the Founding Fathers vision, wishing to return the original meanings in the Constitution and abiding by those meanings.
Not electing a Republican with ‘liberal’ positions, and instead insisting on Strict Constructionist for POTUS, to me is hardly “building ill considered conservatism based on bits and pieces”.
No one here ascribes to what you portend.
whom = who