“This is why conservatism is a perpetual failure. You’re always waking up and opposing gay marriage (for example) after the mechanism to put it into place, both legally and socially, is already in place and doing its work.”
Totally correct.
A weakness the left continues to exploit. Much to the detriment of the country.
Yes. I've often challenged Ted Cruz style "constertooshunul conservutives!" to name one thing that conservatism has actually managed to conserve. They can't.
Conservatism is a failure. It hasn't preserved the Constitution. It hasn't preserved social conservatism. It hasn't even preserved economic conservatism. It hasn't preserved anything. Conservatism is as much a force for social entropy as liberalism is, if only through ineffectiveness and lack of foresight rather than outright malice.