What do those examples say as “conservatism?” It is Edmund Burke’s conservatism: we should be damned careful about upsetting the status quo, including relations of authority. That kind of conservatism makes sense. What passes for conservatism today (in the U.S., especially) is simply unthinking, even irrational (as in denying global warming) hatred of liberalism as an end in itself. It is mere repetition of a mantra: anything any ‘liberal’ (anyone who isn’t being anti-liberal) says, thinks, or feels must be wrong. It just has to be.