The essence of conservatism is preservation. Sometimes, as I pointed out long ago, viewing new ideas and behaviors with suspicion can lead to a failure to adapt, to ignore good or better ideas.
But now anyone who has not embraced All Change, All The Time is a conservative. If you don’t support boys using the girls room INSTANTANEOUSLY you are labeled a reactionary. Again this is political and cultural Gaslighting.
We are not evolving as a society: we are being PUSHED. There is nothing gradual and organic about it, and as I have said, it is inherently an emotionally shallow process necessitating and rewarding shallow people.