Hayek views political space as more of a triangle rather than a one-dimensional spectrum. He puts "conservative" and "classical liberal" on two of the corners, with what would be called "progressive" at the third. Read more here:
"Why I Am Not a Conservative," by F. A. Hayek, from The Constitution of Liberty
I see that is written using the original British definitions for conservative and liberal. The reader has to remember to switch the meanings when reading it.
For instance; “Conservatism proper is a legitimate, probably necessary, and certainly widespread attitude of opposition to drastic change.”
Opposition to drastic change or status quo is why we have a 19 trillion debt. At this point in time what is needed to cure that problem IS drastic change. No if’s, and’s, or but’s about it. What that means is a person advocating the drastic changes needed to take care of our debt is NOT a conservative. The case could be made that person is a progressive- i.e. for progress towards paying down or eliminating the debt. Progressives in America like Hillary and Bernie aren’t for that, they want to add to the debt. So progressive is a word that is practically meaningless too.