You’re explaining the worldview of the alternative facts phony right.
In any event, we have read many of the same authors...
Paul Johnson - Edmund Burke - Eric Hoffer - C.S. Lewis - G.K. Chesterton - F.A. Hayek - Thomas Sowell - Russell Kirk
I would add John Locke - the sovereignty of the individual, inalienable rights granted by God, private property, and each man owns the fruit of his own labors.