Then it is not Conservatism. And it will not work at all. As should be self-evident by now.
You're absolutely right that there's no Principles in conservatism. It's the Principled Conservatives who make up the corps of rotten traitor RINOs that kept the President from getting the proper bills passed before the Rodents stole the House in 2018. It's the Principled Conservatives who have no principles.
Anyone claiming to oppose Trump on Principles don't have any principles at all. They're just spoiled children who don't want to what is needed to make America succeed. In other words, the Principled Conservatives, those pitiful whiners who don't like his Mean Tweets, his relentless attacks on America's enemies in the media, in the Rodent Party, and among the Principled Conservatives themselves, aren't conservatives.
Which is why I capitalized Principles. American's don't need Principles. Their principle is to win and defend the Constitution and the feelings of the enemy about the matter be damned.
Principles of American conservatism:
1) Don't kill babies.
2) Don't kill adults unless they really deserve it, and only then after the proper trial as required by the Constitution.
3) Don't give Rodents a fair shake, just shake them like a husky dog capturing a sleeping cat. Until the crap flies and the rat dies.
4) Grow up and realize that it takes time to reverse what you Rodents have done to destroy the country since 1860.
5) If having Principles means letting Zuckerberg and Fakebook censor political speech, then find a higher principle than property rights, like First Amendment rights. Grow up, in other words. Again.
6) I know what the words "shall not" and "infringed" mean. How is the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Six, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Fourteenth Amendments applied to the states universally, but not the Second and Thirteenth?
7) America IS exceptional, and conservatives put America first before all other nations and peoples of the world.
8) Cells have borders to keep the viruses out. So do nations.
9) The Founding Fathers started a rebellion over a minor tax. So the Rodents call them racist to avoid the discussions about what America is really founded on.
10) Boys have XY chromosomes, girls have XX, and that's that. Nothing complicated here. Since boys aren't girls, they should be competing against girls in sports.
11) Whatever happened to the slogan RINO Dole sported at his Presidential campaign rallies: "Its Your Money, Not Theirs"? Principled Conservatives didn't like it. Our money is supposed to be their money.
12) What's wrong with a President telling people that CNN and MSLSD and the WayPoo and NY Slimes and the rest are lying rags, when they are in fact lying used menstrual rags?
This is conservatism at the grass roots. I can see how the chardonnay sippers can be offended by our uppitiness. Too bad.