We have to accept the fact that Conservatives are largely (but not wholly) NOT compelled by belonging to a collective..
We conservatives prefer to use the word "community" with all of its positive and life-affirming connotations.
The first Europeans to establish permanent footholds in America did so as communities, e.g. the Spanish missionaries, the various French, English and Dutch religious colonies. There were no John Galts.
The history of America is its rise as Ameeicans worked together and its fall as the worship of freedom for freedom's sake and vapid indivualism led to the atomization of the population and the rise of the centralized state to fill the gaps left by broken marriages, emptied churches, and hollowed out service organizations.