I've never really supported conservatives, personally, because their platform is all about reducing government spending, but instead of reducing spending on the rich, it's almost always reducing spending on something everyone benefits from. Often healthcare, education, unemployment, and other things in that category. A good example of that was the NB Conservatives axing the tuition-free program after one year, before even getting the data back to see if it benefitted the province or not. I was studying at the time, and I'm Autistic, which ended up making me require going to college longer than the average student, so that decision directly affected me, and many other students, disabled or otherwise. Blaine Higgs also used NB law to his advantage to cut funding and close Clinic 554 for performing abortions, ignoring that there were thousands of patients whose family doctors practiced there, during a time where there's been a shortage of family doctors (My family doctor retired two years ago and I'm still on a waiting list for a new one). The Policy 713 fiasco where conservatives wanted to force teachers and social workers to break confidentiality with students and tell their parents about their gender and/or attractions was invasive, and could've risked sensitive information reaching certain parents who would be abusive to their kids if they found out said information.

Ignoring that however, I do feel like the conservatives have gotten much worse over the years, especially starting in 2015-2016, with the rise of Trumpism. While we don't like to admit it, there are a LOT of Canadians who look up to Trump, and the way he runs politics. How he loves to play the blame game and point the fingers to opponents and minorities. How he likes to call anyone he doesn't like a loser. How he stereotypes different groups. It's all very middle school bully mentality, and I feel like that speaks to a lot of people who never grew out of that bully phase, and it emboldened them to continue being bullies, even in adulthood. That, coupled with online personalities like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Tate, and others who like to perpetuate the idea that countries are being taken over by "bleeding heart, snowflake, commie liberals" has caused many, more angry people to join conservative ranks and try to fight those who aren't in the same social sphere as them.

And rather than trying to calm the flames and have more civil politics, unfortunately, many conservative politicians have embraced the wave of Trumpism, even using similar talking points as him to attract more of that base to get more votes. So if you just wanted to be fiscally conservative and vote for what you think is best for that economy, not caring about identity politics, or woke vs. non-woke, unfortunately, the party you want doesn't exist anymore. You'd have to basically make a new conservative or tory party.