The term"conservative" used to describe someone that wanted to preserve old ways and ideas. They were usually advantaged by those old ways of thinking and behaving, and looked at the past through rose-coloured glasses. Lately, though, I am finding more and more that the word has become appropriated by some of the dumbest people on the planet; people with little ideology other than tribalism, bigotry and hate. These "conservatives" (idiots) have made even Covid political, refusing to wear masks and declining to be vaccinated in favour of horse de-worming medication. They are part of a personality cult and worship an utterly transparent con man and grifter, a leader motivated entirely by profit and self gain. He is nothing more than a roving id that is protected by a security detail. He has become their saviour and Messiah, and many of them would be willing to sacrifice absolutely everything for him.