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"But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.” For Whom the Bell Tolls

I am merely skeptical that "conservatism' in the sense of respect for tradition and natural hierarchy was ever a thing. As a tendency, nothing even called conservatism ever had a mass following until the dawn of the civil rights era, when it was plainly nothing more than racial backlash.