>>24527679 (OP)Conservatism needs something to conserve. It can only exist in a religious and moral society with shared values and identity binding the people together to a unifying mythology. Once these things died in American and Europe, conservatism died with it.
Look at how conservatives tried to appeal to people based on "American values and our Christian heritage" and it totally failed, while liberals and leftists responded that Cetswhayo Hoogabooga Zulu, Suniti Eshkwayheziz, Pablo Cortez san Trinidad de la Rosa, and any other foreigners fresh off the boat are just as American as John Smith descended from the original Mayflower colonists. I would argue that neoliberals, who are still deluding themselves into thinking they can save the current post-war system, are more conservative than the new right, which wants to burn it all down.