Not to give the worst people on this site ammo in the days leading up to a consequential election, but if you're going all political theory on this, the party who has made conserving the status quo their issue is the Democrats because liberalism is conservative in the US, we libs basically won

The term originally had monarchist connotations because the answer to Locke's famous question, "Who heir?" was monarchs, but it's not 1790 anymore, even the Brits don't *really* let their monarchical heir ascend to real power

I’ve been saying this for some time, typically in tandem with “All serious conversations about policy in America occur within the Democratic Party between factions of Democrats, who fight with each other to craft policy to pass over the objections of Republicans, who are unserious and insane.”

Okay, but the actual defining concept of conservativism is the Wilhoit Quote.