Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.
I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.
People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science, that "if only we could have two political parties that presented a choice, but there were all these liberal Republicans and there were all these southern Democrats who are conservative so people just don't have a clear choice."
Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.
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