No , not conservatives , authoritarians . Ahhh , well isn ' t that convenient . If that were actually believed , where is the uproar from the ' true ' Conservatives in the UK to either change their name or actually uphold supposed conservative ideals ? All they do is continue to reelect them into power . And where is the outcry in the US from the Conservatives to their elected officials in government to uphold those mythical ideals ? All I see and hear are cheers for Trump and Pence . Fascism every time it has occured in history has been under the label of a Nationalist Socialist Party . Categorically untrue . And rather than focus on the nauseating illegality and overreaching by Conservative Parties around the world , all the right can do is foam at the mouth about how the socialists are out to get us . ' Just wait until the lefty commie socialists take power then we ' re all screwed ', said the conservative as every right is systematically stripped and eliminated . Where are these socialists ? Still waiting on that boogie man . Because all I see are conservatives all over the western world pushing and passing the most invasive policies . Once there is a human inside of you , you cannot kill it though . And there it is , folks . This ' true ' conservative just got done waxing poetic about how conservatives are all about preserving individual rights and in that same breath , he aims to restrict it . If you and conservatives had your way , you would legislate against the right for women to control their own bodies . Well , tough cookies , it ' s the 21 st century . Because you believe Jesus would be upset at a woman choosing to terminate an unwanted pregnancy , contemporary American ideals are built on individual freedoms , not what the bible says . Ironic that prioritizing individual rights over government supersession needs to be explained to a selfdeclared conservative . Many Conservative folks in the US didn ' t like bush even when he was elected because he was a war hawk , and authoritarian . And yet they elected and reelected him no problem , and they just elected an incompetent with a religious zealot as his vice president . They legislate against women ' s rights to their bodies , and work ardently to eliminate any sense of privacy from the net or otherwise , but Conservatives are for smallgovernment and ' hands off my rights ' governing right ? You live in a fantasy land devoid of logic or critical thinking . Your argument is entirely predicated on the ' No True Scotsman ' bullshit . No true conservative would advocate for any of these terrible policies ! And yet , here we are . The most aggressive operatives against personal rights and privacy , as well as the most hawk warmongers of the last 2 decades , have all been flying under the Conservative Party banner . You can claim them to be neocons all you like , but in assessing the real world , only neocons exist . Conservatism , by your definition , is well and truly as real as the unicorn .