It’s hard to be a conservative when there’s nothing to conserve.
Speaking as a staunch conservative, I guess it depends on what you are looking to “conserve”. I know for me I want to conserve all the constitutional freedoms and open market capitalism. I have zero interest in conserving hatred of homosexuals, or going back to a time when women were treated as second class citizens.
“It’s hard to be a conservative when there’s nothing to conserve.”
Yep, long, long ago on a tiny farm in South Carolina I learned of the pointlessness of closing the gate after the horse is out.