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Honestly, what the heck are you talking about. Conservatism isn't a policy position but a political and personal disposition. You may have political beliefs that align with conservatism but that doesn't make any one a conservative. The test on whether or not someone holds conservative principles is by observing their conservation of what's good, true, and beautiful (and their pursuit of gradual progress). Furthermore, your staunch populism is antithetical to conservatism: “A Populist, whose basic conviction is that the cure for democracy is more democracy, conserves nothing—even though he may wish to do so. Populism, in effect, is what Walter Bagehot called the ‘ignorant democratic-conservatism of the masses.’” –– Russell Kirk “Populism is often immune to reason and contemptuous of debate.” –– Jonah Goldberg “The very reverse, the obverse of everything conservatism stands for is populism. Populism means the direct translation of majority passion into governance.” –– George Will The central danger of populism “is that it invites its practitioners to prefer what is popular to what is true, correct, accurate, reasoned, right, or moral.” –– Dan McLaughlin “Populism is inherently unprincipled, inconsistent, and unserious, such that arguing for ‘principled populism’ is so much nonsense.” –– Andrew McCarthy You very well may be right-wing but you aren't a conservative.