“Now the liberal philosophy has a problem: old-fashioned liberalism wasn’t really true to Western civilization, in that it had within it the seed that was destined to sprout into radical wokeism. But the liberals don’t recognize this and still object to the explicitly radical transformation of their party.”
This is true of almost all “conservatives” in the West, as well. And the Repubs are not exempt.
How many of them voted for gay marriage in 2022 after supposedly being against it ?
How many are now caving on underage gender surgery and drugs ?
How many caving on trannies in girls sports ?
I think the difference is that conservatism doesn’t itself contain the seeds of those flawed policies, as liberalism did.
What happened instead to conservatism is that the left wing infiltrated conservative thought along with the rest of society. We’re starting to see the pushback though (I’m thinking of the likes of Christopher Rufo and Jordan Peterson).