I don't particularly believe in "conservatism" any more.
I DO believe in the notion of "traditional-minded" Americans who embrace the culture, morals, religion and values of the Euro-descended Americans who founded the nation and sustained its grown for its first 150+ years.
Indeed, I see those who blindly cling to a doctrinaire version of "conservatism" as contributing to the downfall of the country.
"Conservatism" may not save us, any more than "liberalism" would.
What WILL save us is realism and pragmatism about who should live in America and what we need to do to drive the communists out of power and onto history's trash heap...
The problem is that there is no "doctrinaire" version of conservativism.
Conservatism is like pornography. As the judge famously said, "I know what it is when I see it".
The best guide an American has to the definition of "conservatism" is found in the Constitution. And by "found in the Constitution" I do not mean "found in what the Supreme Court says about the Constitution".
The Supreme Court has ruled that women have a Constitutional right to murder their babies, something found in some penumbra somewhere. But the Right to Life is found in the Fifth Amendment, which requires an indictment, a trial, a chance to confront accusers for all persons before they are deprived of property, liberty or life. So the conservative can READ the Constitution for himself, as the Framers intended, and discover what the document says. No "penumbras".
The word "regulated" in the Second Amendment means "trained", "made regular", i.e. uniform in skills. The word was not intended to mean "controlled".
But real conservatives who have ideological disagreements can turn to the Constitution and discuss the intent. People who are not conservatives have to lie.
As others make clearly, we can define also the boundaries of conservatism by identifying what it is not. Conservatism is not:
Affirmative Action and other systemic plans to segregate people by government fiat.
It is not killing babies on demand.
It is not Open Borders.
It is not any violation of the five freedoms of the First Amendment. People have the right to go to casinos during a Fake Pandemic, but not go to church? People can't associate freely to peaceably protest fascist mask rules, but the months-long Riots For Horst Wessel are permitted? No.
The Constitution does not permit the existence of the Welfare State, the Socialist Security Ponzi Scheme, MessiahCare, federally funded education, the CDC enacting LAW under the guise of false "science", or shutting down the US energy industries to promote the cult of Planet Worship.
Hate Speech is free speech and thus not subject to criminal legislation. Rioting is not speech.