I would ask people who view themselves as “conservative” to think deeply about what, exactly, they seek to conserve. For example, does that include conserving big government?
The root of many issues of government over-reach and government intrusion, and outright tyranny is found in the fact that government has given itself the power to create near-infinite amounts of money out of thin air by which it can pay for just about anything its politicians and bureaucrats want.
It is bad enough that we have a government that is big enough that it can enjoy thuggery by bureaucrats in suits with clipboards and reams of regulations, each having the effect of law. We have government that has enough money that it can allow these bureaucrats to entertain their dark side worries about theoretical threats to their fiefdoms and create small private armies of thug enforcers. How else do we get to having BLM sniper teams?
Near-infinite money buys near-infinite government. The fastest path to a government that is more restrained by its enumerated powers is to severely restrict the ability of government to spend money, or to create money out of thin air.
The sad truth about this is that forcing government back to a size where taxpayers control the purse strings also means we must cut the money we spend on the military. Too many “conservatives” relish US military power and will squawk at any cuts. Cuts must come. We cannot afford the current military force. We must know that when our military cuts back, other countries will rush in to stake out their own turf.
Every day more people are coming to the judgment that a carefully organized effort to repair the constitution via the States’ power to propose and ratify amendments has less risk to our liberty and prosperity than the present trajectory of the federal government and especially the federal bureaucracy, who are too often thugs with clip-boards and their own SWAT teams.