While you wallow in your yearning for [social] conservatism, everyone else has moved on.
Interesting, again, you are arguing against conservatism on a conservative website that, at its very heart, DOES value social conservatism.
I am not arguing against conservatism, actually. I think Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles are a pretty good jumping off point. Unfortunately so-called conservatives have a tendancy towards an orthodox doctrine [see T. Cruz], and thereby ignore many of Kirk's principles, in particular:
Principal 10 - the thinking conservative understands that permanence and change must be recognized and reconciled in a vigorous society.....Change is essential to the body social, the conservative reasons, just as it is essential to the human body. A body that has ceased to renew itself has begun to die. But if that body is to be vigorous, the change must occur in a regular manner, harmonizing with the form and nature of that body; otherwise change produces a monstrous growth, a cancer, which devours its host. The conservative takes care that nothing in a society should ever be wholly old, and that nothing should ever be wholly new. This is the means of the conservation of a nation, quite as it is the means of conservation of a living organism. Just how much change a society requires, and what sort of change, depend upon the circumstances of an age and a nation.
Please explain what was Conservative about the Corker Bill that Cruz supported and voted for? Do Conservatives Fund Terror? Do Conservatives give Atomic Bombs to those who WILL use them against us? If that is the case, does it matter? And besides, who says Trump is not a Conservative?