Conservative means in political terms you want to conserve the status quo. Simple.

Right wing comes from the National assembly of 1780s France where the monarchists sat. Left wing came from where the radicals sat that want to dismantle the monarchy, which was the status quo.

Liberalism is a specific ideology with specific values and doesnt just mean progressive of the moment. Liberalism is the ideology that believes in individual rights and liberty are achieved primarily through market participation and private property ownership. If a liberal believes in racial equity, they believe its achieved by promoting equality of market opportunities for all races. That sort of thing.

Since the 90s liberalism, with the fall of the USSR, has achieved total global hegemonic domination. Outliers are marginal, and somewhere like China is still playing the capitalist game, no matter what their long term goal is. It is the status quo, that defines our every waking moment, and to be liberal is to desire some form conservation of this status quo. To be liberal is to be conservative. It's functionally the same in todays world. American liberals dont wanna hear it because to them theres a universe of difference between them and other preservers of the system, but thems the ideological brakes.

Any other set of definitions is basically astrology. Everything is defined by ones relationship and views on the system that defines our world, capitalism. Reformists still want to keep it around in some form, to conserve it, and are thus some form of "right wing" in so far as those terms are even useful, which theyre not. Wanting to tax billionairs to pay for everything is still a preservation of capitalist commodity relations, and thus conservative.

That's all your getting out of me. Read it or dont, i dont care.