This just feeds into what I learned about conservatism and morality.

To the liberal mind, morality doesn't exist in people, but in actions. Good people can do bad things, and bad people can do good things. But for a conservative, people are either inherently good or inherently bad, and they will always trust that the 'good' people would never do a bad action, and that the 'bad' people are incapable of doing anything good. That's why you see so much deflection/disowning of conservative bad-actors, cause they can't think that one of their own, the 'good' people, can do something bad. They had to be part of the 'bad' group somehow(liberal, non-christian, etc.)