Glenn Greenwald nails it:
"Conservatism" -- like "communism" -- has only one real definition, only one
definition that matters: "that which 'conservatives' and the leaders they
support do when in power." Conservatism is a set of principles about how
government ought to function and the policies which political leaders should
implement. And those principles can be known not by how they exist in some
Platonic form, abstractly enshrined by think tank groups or in textbooks. One
knows it by how its proponents -- "conservatives" -- actually govern and by who
and what they support.
... although I am pretty sure I could define it pretty well with a couple of four letter words.
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