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 ::*Firstly, you have no sources stating it's primarily. There are many sources which state it has gained such a connotation in addition to what it used to be, but none claim primarily. Two obviously ultraliberal sources dedicate very short sentences to it stating it's a pejorative — they are WP:FRINGE and WP:BIASED. You removed 9 sources of which none were dictionaries. The dictionary would be tenth. 
 ::*But Allan Bloom wasn't a ""conservative"" as we know the term. He held academically traditional views as to what should be taught in schools. He was against educational change. Using words like conservative is ambiguous, breaking WP:DISAMBIG. 
 ::*You call academic sources defining the term as something akin a philosophy and not as a simple pejorative ""scattered usages?"" Mind you the literally dozen sources I gave you were from the first two pages of the academic search engine I used.  
 ::*The term's use by people other than ""conservatives"" is well-documented as well. Finally, not as a source but as an anecdote so don't bust your balls: on Monday I saw Colbert use it non-pejoratively on his new talkshow.   "