In my humble opinion, a critical characteristic of “conservative” for purposes of this, is:
Do they support American jobs?
We’ve had far, far too many recently who have supported foreign jobs.
We need an entire party, dedicated to American jobs. It would win, every single election.
Better to just take over the GOP and let the RINOs form their own party.
“Do they support American jobs?”
And if they don’t, what are you going to do about it? Stay home? Vote Dim?