In order for there to be a conservative tendency, movement, or (eventually) party, the FOUNDATION is, "what are we promising to conserve?"
This does not exist, and never has existed, for the so-called American "conservative movement".
And let's be honest. There is no agreement on this site about a starting point for what is to be conserved.
33AD?
325AD?
1453?
1860?
1898?
1913?
1919?
1933?
1945 (lots of fans here)?
1959?
1973?
1988?
2008?
December 2019?
You see the problem. The "conservative" house is built on sand, and the waves are washing it away.
Yup !
My view is that God-fearing leaders and elites and rulers can make any political system work.
And if you don’t have that, any political system will decay and collapse.
All the countries of the West are living thru the end state failure of Regimes based on Enlightenment thinking.
Nothing will change until they totally collapse.