I wasn’t trying to question who you were voting for or not for. I was taking disagreement with your premise that the Republican party was not conservative to begin with. It most certainly was conservative, as the party was formed by Christian Abolitionists. The abolitionists were most certainly SOCIAL conservatives. They wanted to change a few things they didn’t like that was going on in our nation at the time.
They came together primarily to force SOCIAL change, not economic.
Well it didn’t happen until Reagan.