Depends on What You’re Conserving

“Conservatives of practically all types, like Wills and Will, fall all over each other exalting the prerogatives of the idol state. That is why when they take power from avowed social democratic parties—as in Sweden, Britain and the United States—there are no fundamental changes. They go with the tide; an electorate that demands the property of other people will get it from their government no matter what party in power calls itself. Hayek was right, and his critics wrong, in continually denying that he was ever a conservative” (Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction, p. 220).